The Spirit of Contradiction in Christianity and Buddhism

by Hugh Nicholson

Book Overview

The cognitive science of religion has shown that abstract religious concepts within many established religious traditions often fail to correspond to the beliefs of the vast majority of those religions' adherents. And yet, while the cognitive approach to religion has explained why these "theologically correct" doctrines have difficulty taking root in popular religious thought, it is largely silent on the question of how they developed in the first...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190455349
• ISBN13: 9780190455347
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"