Evolution, Religion, and Cognitive Scienc
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978–0–19–968808–1
oxford university
2014
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loginThe Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) has attracted a huge amount of atten-tion from all quarters over many years, and has achieved something approach-ing notoriety in contemporary religious studies. it is already a very large and complex field of study, and continues to expand at a prodigious rate. However, although the development of CSR undoubtedly ranks amongst the most sig-nificant events in religious studies for many decades, we must be wary that the sheer missionary enthusiasm shown for it by its strongest adherents does not transform it into a quasi-religion in itself, and deflect careful critical analysis.