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A Social Cognition Perspective of the Psychology of Religion: "Why God Thinks Like You": Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation

Autor Luke Galen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 iul 2023
An exploration of how psychological mechanisms produce intuitions, beliefs, behaviors, and experiences that are misattributed as being unique outcomes of religious or spiritual influences. Written from a social psychology perspective, this book proposes that religious and spiritual content represent one possible interpretation of the output of processes that also produce and govern nonreligious content. In looking at why people believe in God, and why belief in God is often linked with a range of positive outcomes such as prosociality, morality, health, and happiness, the author uses a critical lens that challenges past theories of religion's functions and adds new perspectives into a discipline that is often limited by an exclusive focus on evolutionary theory. This book features several cross-cutting themes-including "dual process" theory and an exploration of how various social cognition mechanisms and biases can channel or shape religious content-and provides a continuous through-line linking the underlying building blocks of thought, as studied in the cognitive sciences of religion (CSR) to specific religious and spiritual concepts using a social cognition lens.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350293908
ISBN-10: 1350293903
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Covers both the processes that lead people to hold religious beliefs (religious belief as a dependent variable), and the processes that lead religious people to behave in particular ways (religious belief as an independent variable).

Notă biografică

Luke Galen is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Grand Valley State University, USA.

Cuprins

List of FiguresAcknowledgements Introduction: The Psychology of Religious Belief from a Social Cognition Perspective.Part I: Mechanisms of Social Cognition and Religious Manifestations1. Cognition, Dual Process Models, and Introspective Opacity.2. Social Cognition and Attribution theory3. Functional and Compensatory Mechanisms of Religion4. Influence of the Social and Group Context. Part II: Misattribution of the Effects of Religion5. Exceptional Religious and Spiritual Experiences 6. Mental Health7. Morality and ProsocialityConclusionNotes BibliographyIndex

Recenzii

This is essential reading for any person who wishes to claim that religious or spiritual phenomena are other than misattributions of purely psychological mechanisms uncovered by psychological science. For persons of faith, religious and spiritual phenomena remain embedded in world views that Luke Galen has persuasively argued are mirrors of deception. This remarkable book cannot be ignored. For those who study people of faith or who are themselves people of faith, the gauntlet has been clearly thrown.