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  • Minds and Gods

    The Cognitive Foundations of Religion

    by Todd Tremlin ...
    Around the world and throughout history, in cultures as diverse as ancient Mesopotamia and modern America, human beings have been compelled by belief in gods and developed complex religions around them. But why? What makes belief in supernatural beings so widespread? And why are the gods of so many different people so similar in nature? This provocative book explains the origins and persistence of ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Minds and Gods

    The Cognitive Foundations of Religion

    by Todd Tremlin ...
    Around the world and throughout history, in cultures as diverse as ancient Mesopotamia and modern America, human beings have been compelled by belief in gods and developed complex religions around them. But why? What makes belief in supernatural beings so widespread? And why are the gods of so many different people so similar in nature? This provocative book explains the origins and persistence of ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Mind and Religion

    Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religion

    by Pascal Boyer, Robert Hinde, E Thomas Lawson, Todd Tremlin, Matt Day, Justin Barrett, Rebekah A. Richert, Ilkka Pyysiäinen, Jesper Sørensen, D Jason Slone ...
    Series series Cognitive Science of Religion
    Recent cognitive approaches to the study of religion have yielded much understanding by focusing on common psychological processes that all humans share. One leading theory, Harvey WhitehouseOs modes of religiosity theory, demonstrates how two distinct modes of organizing and transmitting religious traditions emerge from different ways of activating universal memory systems. In Mind and Religion, ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • Rational Mysticism

    Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment

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    The author of The End of Science chronicles the most advanced research into such experiences as prayer, fasting, and trances in this "great read" ( The Washington Post).How do trances, visions, prayer, satori, and other mystical experiences "work"? What induces and defines them? Is there a scientific explanation for religious mysteries and transcendent meditation? John Horgan investigates a wide ... Read more

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  • When God Talks Back

    Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God

    by T. M. Luhrmann ...
    How does God become and remain real for modern evangelicals? How are rational, sensible people of faith able to experience the presence of a powerful yet invisible being and sustain that belief in an environment of overwhelming skepticism? T. M. Luhrmann, an anthropologist trained in psychology and the acclaimed author of Of Two Minds, explores the extraordinary process that leads some believers ... Read more

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  • Born to Believe

    God, Science, and the Origin of Ordinary and Extraordinary Beliefs

    by Andrew Newberg, M.D., Mark Robert Waldman ...
    Born to Believe was previously published in hardcover as Why We Believe What We Believe.Prayer...meditation...speaking in tongues. What do these spiritual activities share and how do they differ? Why do some people believe in God, while others embrace atheism? From the ordinary to the extraordinary, beliefs give meaning to the mysteries of life. They motivate us, provide us with our individual ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Why God Won't Go Away

    Brain Science and the Biology of Belief

    by Eugene G. D'Aquili, Andrew Newberg M.D. ...
    Why have we humans always longed to connect with something larger than ourselves? Why does consciousness inevitably involve us in a spiritual quest? Why, in short, won't God go away? Theologians, philosophers, and psychologists have debated this question through the ages, arriving at a range of contradictory and ultimately unprovable answers. But in this brilliant, groundbreaking new book, ... Read more

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  • The Divine Magician

    The Disappearance of Religion and the Discovery of Faith

    by Peter Rollins ...
    In this mind-bending exploration of traditional Christianity, firebrand Peter Rollins turns the tables on conventional wisdom, offering a fresh perspective focused on a life filled with love.Peter Rollins knows one magic trick—now, make sure you watch closely. It has three parts: the Pledge, the Turn, and the Prestige. In Divine Magician, each part comes into play as he explores a radical view of ... Read more

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  • In Gods We Trust

    The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion

    by Scott Atran ...
    Series series Evolution and Cognition
    This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention, cultural selection, and historical survival of religion is an accommodation of certain existential and moral elements ... Read more

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  • All God Worshippers Are Mad: a little book of sanity

    by JP Tate ...
    "All God Worshippers Are Mad: a little book of sanity" seeks to demonstrate in a logical common sense manner that the fundamental beliefs held by all monotheists are incomprehensible and lunatic. It attempts to show that god worshippers themselves do not understand the things they claim to believe, and by which they live their lives. Then it goes on to draw attention to why this matters so ... Read more

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  • Nietzsche and Zen

    Self Overcoming Without a Self

    by André van der Braak ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
    In Nietzsche and Zen: Self-Overcoming Without a Self, André van der Braak engages Nietzsche in a dialogue with four representatives of the Buddhist Zen tradition: Nagarjuna (c. 150-250), Linji (d. 860), Dogen (1200-1253), and Nishitani (1900-1990). In doing so, he reveals Nietzsche's thought as a philosophy of continuous self-overcoming, in which even the notion of "self" has been overcome. Van ... Read more

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