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Religion Explained by Pascal Boyer 9780099282761
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Why are there religious beliefs in all cultures? Do they have features in common and why does religion persist in the face of science? Pascal Boyer shows how experimental findings in cognitive... -
Memory in Mind and Culture by Pascal Boyer 9780521760782
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £89.69This text introduces students, scholars, and interested educated readers to the issues of human memory broadly considered, encompassing both individual memory, collective remembering by societies,... -
Memory in Mind and Culture by Pascal Boyer 9780521758925
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £36.30This text introduces students, scholars, and interested educated readers to the issues of human memory broadly considered, encompassing both individual memory, collective remembering by societies,... -
Cognitive Aspects of Religious Symbolism by Pascal Boyer 9780521438704
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.67How are religious ideas presented, acquired and transmitted? Confronted with religious practices, anthropologists have typically been content with sociological generalizations, informed by vague,... -
Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought by Pascal Boyer
Booksplease Price: £13.46Many of our questions about religion, says renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, are no longer mysteries. We are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" Using... -
Tradition as Truth and Communication: A Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse by Pascal Boyer 9780521374170
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.72Tradition is a central concept in the social sciences, but it is commonly treated as unproblematic. Dr Boyer insists that social anthropology requires a theory of tradition, its constitution and... -
Tradition as Truth and Communication: A Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse by Pascal Boyer 9780521024662
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £33.89Tradition is a central concept in the social sciences, but it is commonly treated as unproblematic. Dr Boyer insists that social anthropology requires a theory of tradition, its constitution and... -
Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create by Pascal Boyer
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.68A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies "There is no good... -
The Fracture of an Illusion: Science and the Dissolution of Religion -- Frankfurt Templeton Lectures 2008 by Pascal Boyer 9783525569405
Booksplease Price: £58.58Pascal Boyer argues that religion is largely an illusion. The anthropologist traces religion's cognitive and evolutionary aspects. By "religion" he means a kind of existential and cognitive "package"... -
Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens: Essays in Evolutionary Cognitive Anthropology by Pascal Boyer 9781800642072
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £38.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800642072Author Pascal BoyerFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher... -
Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens: Essays in Evolutionary Cognitive Anthropology by Pascal Boyer 9781800642065
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £26.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800642065Author Pascal BoyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher... -
The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist's Point of View by Tim Crane 9780674088832
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £21.56"[A] lucid and thoughtful book... In a spirit of reconciliation, Crane proposes to paint a more accurate picture of religion for his fellow unbelievers." -James Ryerson, New York Times Book... -
The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction by David Wengrow
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.85It has often been claimed that "monsters"--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times. The... -
The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction by David Wengrow 9780691202396
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.73It has often been claimed that "monsters"--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times. The... -
Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture by E. Thomas Lawson 9780521438063
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £41.32This 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... -
Sanctity, Gender and Authority in Medieval Caucasia Nikoloz Aleksidze 9781474498623
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.86From the early fourth century, the veneration of saints and relics spread rapidly across Christendom from the British Isles to Iran. In late antique Caucasia, the cult of the saints was immediately... -
Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion by Stewart Guthrie 9780195098914
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £30.54Religion is one of the most universal and most studied human phenomena, yet there exists no widely shared definition for it. This ambitious study provides and defends such a definition.About the... -
Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative by Lisa Zunshine 9780801887062
Booksplease Price: £61.90In this fresh and often playful interdisciplinary study, Lisa Zunshine presents a fluid discussion of how key concepts from cognitive science complicate our cultural interpretations of "strange"... -
Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative Lisa Zunshine (Bush-Holbrook Professor of English, University of Kentucky) 9780801887079
Booksplease Price: £32.00In this fresh and often playful interdisciplinary study, Lisa Zunshine presents a fluid discussion of how key concepts from cognitive science complicate our cultural interpretations of "strange"... -
The Incredible Shrinking Mind: What Happens When The Human Equation Gets Lost by Gerald Alper
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.66Within the last few decades a dizzying array of scientific disciplines and "explanations" of the motivating forces behind the profound enigmas of human behaviour have emerged: sociobiology, cognitive... -
Imagining the Cognitive Science of Religion: Magic Bullets, Complex Theories, Experimental Adventures by E. Thomas Lawson 9781350355873
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.86A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEUniting Thomas Lawson's essays on the cognitive science of religion, this volume explores theoretical issues in the study of cultural phenomena such as... -
Psychology and Religion: Classical Theorists and Contemporary Developments by Andrew Reid Fuller 9780742560222
Booksplease Price: £56.66This book articulates a broad range of theoretical viewpoints, both classical and contemporary, in the field of the psychology of religion. Chapters One through Eight are overviews of such... -
‘Unruly’ Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village Jing Xu 9781009416252
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.24How do we become moral persons? What about children's active learning in contrast to parenting? What can children teach us about knowledge-making more broadly? Answer these questions by delving into... -
‘Unruly’ Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village Jing Xu 9781009416276
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £64.00How do we become moral persons? What about children's active learning in contrast to parenting? What can children teach us about knowledge-making more broadly? Answer these questions by delving into... -
Why Would Anyone Believe in God? by Justin L. Barrett 9780759106673
Booksplease Price: £33.84Because of the design of our minds. That is Justin Barrett's simple answer to the question of his title. With rich evidence from cognitive science but without technical language, psychologist Barrett... -
Reframing the Masters of Suspicion: Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud by Andrew Dole 9781350170063
Booksplease Price: £35.83This book revisits Paul Ricoeur's classification of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud as the "masters of suspicion", and provides a thought-provoking critique for critical religious... -
A Cognitive Theory of Magic by Jesper Sorensen 9780759110403
Booksplease Price: £43.76Magic is a universal phenomenon. Everywhere we look people perform ritual actions in which desirable qualities are transferred by means of physical contact and objects or persons are manipulated by... -
A Cognitive Theory of Magic by Jesper Sorensen 9780759110373
Booksplease Price: £113.11Magic is a universal phenomenon. Everywhere we look people perform ritual actions in which desirable qualities are transferred by means of physical contact and objects or persons are manipulated by...