Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture

By Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson

Book Overview

This book develops a cognitive approach to religion. Focusing particularly on ritual action, it borrows analytical methods from linguistics and other cognitive sciences. The authors provide a lucid, critical review of established approaches to the study of religion, and make a strong plea for the combination of interpretation and explanation. Often represented as competitive approaches, they are, rather, complementary and equally vital to the study of symbolic systems. Rethinking Religion deals with the relationship between cognition and culture in a novel manner, and introduces a method of analysis that will have many applications.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521438063
• ISBN13: 9780521438063
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"