Rethinking religion : connecting cognition and culture
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Rethinking religion : connecting cognition and culture
Cambridge University Press, 1993
1st pbk. ed
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Bibliography: p. 185-189
Includes index
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This book is an ambitious attempt to develop a cognitive approach to religion. Focusing particularly on ritual action, it borrows analytical methods from linguistics and other cognitive sciences. The authors, a philosopher of science and a scholar of comparative religion, provide a lucid critical review of established approaches to religion, and make a strong plea for the combination of interpretation and explanation. Often represented as competitive approaches, they are rather, complementary, equally vital to the study of symbolic systems.
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