Guest Editor's Introduction
Religion, Art, and Cognition
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v9i3.27055Keywords:
Cognition, evolution, art, prophecy, street theater.Abstract
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Coupar, Regina. 2012. ‘Can Art Be Theology?’, Toronto Journal of Theology 28.1: 61-80. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/tjt.28.1.61.
Dissanayake, Ellen. 1988. What Is Art For? (Seattle: University of Washington Press).
Donald, Merlin. 1993. Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).
———. 1999. ‘The Widening Gyre: Religion, Culture and Evolution’, Science and Spirit Magazine 10.2: 22-23.
———. 2002. A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness (New York: W.W. Norton).
———. 2006. ‘Art and Cognitive Evolution’, in Mark Turner (ed.), The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity (New York: Oxford University Press): 3-20. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306361.003.0001.
Eliade, Mircea. 1986. Symbolism, the Sacred, and the Arts (ed. Diane Apostolos-Cappadona; New York: Crossroad).
Guthrie, Stewart. 1980. ‘A Cognitive Theory of Religion’, Current Anthropology 21.2: 181-203. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/202429.
———. 1993. Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion (New York: Oxford University Press).
———. 2002. ‘Animal Animism: Evolutionary Roots of Religious Cognition’, in Ilka Pyysiäinen and Vekko Anttonen (eds.), Current Approaches in the Cognitive Science of Religion (London: Continuum): 38-76.
———. 2014. ‘Religion as Anthropomorphism at Çatalhöyük’, in Ian Hodder (ed.), Vital Matters: Religion and Change at Çatalhöyük (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press): 86-108.
Pyysiäinen, Ilkka. 2001. How Religion Works (Leiden: Brill).
———. 2013. Magic, Miracles and Religion: A Scientist's Perspective (Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press).
Rennie, Bryan. 2011. ‘Fact and Interpretation: Sui Generis Religion, Experience, Ascription, and Art’, Archaeus 15: 51-74.
Sokolove, Deborah. 2013. Sanctifying Art: Inviting Conversation between Artists, Theologians, and the Church (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock).
Zunshine, Lisa (ed.). 2010. Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press).
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2015-10-12
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How to Cite
Rennie, B. (2015). Guest Editor’s Introduction: Religion, Art, and Cognition. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 9(3), 251-258. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v9i3.27055
