Language and religion : a journey into the human mind
"Language and Religion offers an innovative theory of religion as a class of cultural representations, dependent on language to unify diverse capacities of the human mind. It argues that religion is widespread because it is implicit in the way the mind processes the world, as it determines what...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press ,
c2012
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Table of Contents:
- 1. A cognitive theory of religion
- 2. The supernatural and the uses of the intentional
- 3. Dissemination and the comprehension of mysteries
- 4. Pragmatics and pragmatism
- 5. Authority
- 6. Conceptual innovation and revelatory language