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Cognitive Science Of Religion Books
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Minds and Gods: The Cognitive Foundations of Religion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 4.10 — 72 ratings — published 2006
Born Believers: The Science of Children's Religious Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.64 — 142 ratings — published 2012
Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission (Cognitive Science of Religion)
by (shelved 3 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 4.06 — 33 ratings — published 2004
Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,427 ratings — published 2001
In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (Evolution and Cognition)
by (shelved 3 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.95 — 318 ratings — published 2002
Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 4.01 — 388 ratings — published 2013
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.64 — 631 ratings — published 2011
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.88 — 12,913 ratings — published 2006
The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.74 — 696 ratings — published 2009
The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,333 ratings — published 2011
Mind and Religion: Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religion (Cognitive Science of Religion)
by (shelved 2 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 4.36 — 11 ratings — published 2005
The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.70 — 10 ratings — published 1994
How Religion Works: Towards a New Cognitive Science of Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 4.08 — 12 ratings — published 2001
Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.92 — 12 ratings — published 1998
Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.73 — 132 ratings — published 1997
Supernatural Agents: Why We Believe in Souls, Gods, and Buddhas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 4.38 — 16 ratings — published 2009
SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,284 ratings — published 2009
When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 4.21 — 423 ratings — published 2004
Born to Believe: God, Science, and the Origin of Ordinary and Extraordinary Beliefs (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.90 — 120 ratings — published 2006
Theorizing Religions Past: Archaeology, History, and Cognition (Cognitive Science of Religion)
by (shelved 2 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.91 — 11 ratings — published 2004
Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.67 — 88 ratings — published 1993
Theological Incorrectness: Why Religious People Believe What They Shouldn't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.81 — 67 ratings — published 2004
Why Gods Persist: A Scientific Approach to Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.52 — 27 ratings — published 1999
Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.86 — 402 ratings — published 2002
How the Bible Works: An Anthropological Study of Evangelical Biblicism (Cognitive Science of Religion)
by (shelved 2 times as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.84 — 37 ratings — published 2004
Cosmogonies - La préhistoire des mythes (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.92 — 25 ratings — published
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,277 ratings — published 2013
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 4.09 — 34,263 ratings — published 2011
Supernatural as Natural (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 4.12 — 24 ratings — published 2007
Cognition and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Symbolic Storage (Monograph Series)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.67 — 6 ratings — published 1999
Religion and its Evolution: Signals, Norms and Secret Histories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.97 — 450 ratings — published 2011
Cognitive Aspects of Religious Symbolism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 1993
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,512 ratings — published 1999
The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,963 ratings — published
Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,586 ratings — published 2008
A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.89 — 52,205 ratings — published 1993
God: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,623 ratings — published 1995
Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,672 ratings — published 2003
Why We Believe What We Believe: Uncovering Our Biological Need for Meaning, Spirituality, and Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 4.00 — 327 ratings — published 2006
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,548 ratings — published 1982
NeuroTheology: Brain, Science, Spirituality, Religious Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 4.00 — 14 ratings — published 2003
Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.89 — 133 ratings — published 2012
The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,645 ratings — published 2013
Psychoanalysis and Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,803 ratings — published
A Natural History of Natural Theology: The Cognitive Science of Theology and Philosophy of Religion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 4.46 — 13 ratings — published 2014
Religion and the Individual: A Social-Psychological Perspective (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 4.06 — 16 ratings — published 1993
Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,302 ratings — published 2001
Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.97 — 286 ratings — published 2010
Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cognitive-science-of-religion)
avg rating 3.75 — 237 ratings — published 2007
“As if the natural world alone was not sufficiently demoralizing, our ancestors seemed compelled to augment it with supernatural forces designed to intensify its gloom. If religion's primary purpose was comfort against the vagaries of life, we could have wished for much better than the gods and myths we inherited.”
― Supernatural Selection: How Religion Evolved
― Supernatural Selection: How Religion Evolved
“Nothing is so conducive to spiritual growth as this capacity for logical and accurate analysis of everything that happens to us. To look at it in such a way that we understand what need it fulfills, and in what kind of world.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
