Reliability and Adaptability of Religious Beliefs in the Light of Cognitive Science of Religion

• Authors: Konrad Szocik
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Cognitive approach towards the study of religion is a good and promising way. However, I think that this approach is too narrow and it would be better to use some basic concepts of CSR as a starting point for further, not cognitive explanation of religious. I suppose that religious beliefs should be explained also by their pragmatic functions because they were probably always associated with some pragmatic purposes at the group or at the individual levels. To develop further this last approach, the good explanatory way is the evolutionary study of religion.

Keywords

EN

cognitive science of religion; evolutionary science of religion; byproduct; adaptation

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studia Humana
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 64-73

Dates

published

2016-12-01

online

2016-11-16

Contributors

author

Konrad Szocik

• University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow,

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/sh-2016-0025