The paper discusses main aspects of modern cognitive science of religion. It shows that researchers, working within the cognitive frame based on naturalism and the theory of evolution, treat religion as a special form of cognitive activity and correlate the genesis of religion with the origin of consciousness and some special functions of its earliest forms.

Translated title of the contributionCognitive science and the study of religion
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)32-62
Number of pages31
JournalГОСУДАРСТВО, РЕЛИГИЯ, ЦЕРКОВЬ В РОССИИ И ЗА РУБЕЖОМ
Volume31
Issue number3
StatePublished - 2013

    Scopus subject areas

  • Religious studies
  • Sociology and Political Science

    Research areas

  • Cognitive science, Counterintuitive representations, Naturalism, Religion, Ritual, Supernatural beings, Theory of evolution

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