Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture

E. Thomas Lawson (Western Michigan University),Robert N. McCauley (Emory University, Atlanta)

Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
14 January 1993
Pages
208
ISBN
9780521438063

Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture

E. Thomas Lawson (Western Michigan University),Robert N. McCauley (Emory University, Atlanta)

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.

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