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  • Imagining the Cognitive Science of Religion

    Magic Bullets, Complex Theories, Experimental Adventures

    by E. Thomas Lawson ...
    Series series Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
    A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEUniting Thomas Lawson's essays on the cognitive science of religion, this volume explores theoretical issues in the study of cultural phenomena such as religion, the role of imagination, and the experiments that emerge from these theories.The book begins with Lawson's influential essay “Towards a Cognitive Science of Religion,” which was the first to employ ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion

    A Head Start

    by Robert N. McCauley, E. Thomas Lawson ...
    Series series Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
    Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson are considered the founders of the field of the cognitive science of religion. Since its inception over twenty years ago, the cognitive science of religion has raised questions about the philosophical foundations and implications of such a scientific approach. This volume from McCauley, including chapters co-authored by Lawson, is the first book-length ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Joke Is on Us

    Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times

    by Julie A. Webber, James Brassett, Marc-Olivier Castagner, Seçil Dagtas, Jessyka Finley, Viveca Greene, David Grondin, Thomas Lawson, Sophia McClennen, Aaron McKain0, Diane Rubenstein1, Don Waisanen2, Simon Weaver3, Rebecca Krefting4 ...
    Series series Politics and Comedy: Critical Encounters
    This edited volume brings together scholars of comedy to assess how political comedy encounters neoliberal themes in contemporary media. Central to this task is the notion of genre; under neoliberal conditions (where market logics motivate most actions) genre becomes “mixed.” Once stable, discreet categories such as comedy, horror, drama and news and entertainment have become blurred so as to be ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Mind and Religion

    Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religion

    by Pascal Boyer, Robert Hinde, E Thomas Lawson, Todd Tremlin, Matt Day, Justin Barrett, Rebekah A. Richert, Ilkka Pyysiäinen, Jesper Sørensen, D Jason Slone ...
    Series series Cognitive Science of Religion
    Recent cognitive approaches to the study of religion have yielded much understanding by focusing on common psychological processes that all humans share. One leading theory, Harvey WhitehouseOs modes of religiosity theory, demonstrates how two distinct modes of organizing and transmitting religious traditions emerge from different ways of activating universal memory systems. In Mind and Religion, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Theorizing Religions Past

    Archaeology, History, and Cognition

    by Harvey Whitehouse, Luther Martin, E Thomas Lawson, Stephen Mithen, Karen Johnson, Douglas L. Gragg, Roger Beck, Anita Leopold, Anne Clark0, Theodore Vial1, Ulrich Berner2, Ilkka Pyysiäinen3, Donald Weibe4 ...
    Series series Cognitive Science of Religion
    Historians bound by their singular stories and archaeologists bound by their material evidence donOt typically seek out broad comparative theories of religion. But recently Harvey WhitehouseOs Omodes of religiosityO theory has been attracting many scholars of past religions. Based upon universal features of human cognition, WhitehouseOs theory can provide useful comparisons across cultures and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    Navigating Wicca

    Wicca Unveiled: Exploring the Ancient Craft of Magic and Spirituality

    by Thomas Lawson ...
    Narrated by Thomas Lawson ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 50 min

    "Navigating Wicca: Wicca Unveiled: Exploring the Ancient Craft of Magic and Spirituality," is an in-depth guide that most likely will plunge any reader deep into the esoteric Wiccan world-a modern spiritual movement borne out of ancient pagan inspirations. No doubt, this will be very useful to the neophyte who is starting their journey into Wicca and also to the practitioner aiming at further ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Free Will and Consciousness

    A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will

    by Gregg D. Caruso ...
    In recent decades, with advances in the behavioral, cognitive, and neurosciences, the idea that patterns of human behavior may ultimately be due to factors beyond our conscious control has increasingly gained traction and renewed interest in the age-old problem of free will. In this book, Gregg D. Caruso examines both the traditional philosophical problems long associated with the question of free ... Read more

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  • The Extended Mind

    The Emergence of Language, the Human Mind, and Culture

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    The ability to communicate through language is such a fundamental part of human existence that we often take it for granted, rarely considering how sophisticated the process is by which we understand and make ourselves understood. In The Extended Mind, acclaimed author Robert K. Logan examines the origin, emergence, and co-evolution of language, the human mind, and culture.Building on his previous ... Read more

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  • Persons and their Minds

    Towards an Integrative Theory of the Mediated Mind

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    Today’s approaches to the study of the human mind are divided into seemingly opposed camps. On one side we find the neurosciences, with their more or less reductionist research programs, and on the other side we find the cultural and discursive approaches, with their frequent neglect of the material sides of human life. Persons and their Minds seeks to develop an integrative theory of the mind ... Read more

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  • Sociocultural Theory Second Language Learning

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    Series series Oxford Applied Linguistics
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  • Analytical Psychology

    Contemporary Perspectives in Jungian Analysis

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