James Cresswell, Culture and the Cognitive Science of Religion

Authors

  • Rohan Kapitány University of Oxford

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.39043

Keywords:

religion

Abstract

James Cresswell, Culture and the Cognitive Science of Religion

Author Biography

  • Rohan Kapitány, University of Oxford

    Rohan undertook his PhD in experimental psychology at The University of Queensland where he examined the developmental, cognitive, and cultural factors that influence the perception of ritual. He now works in a postdoctoral research position further examining these questions. Broadly, he is interested in the evolution of culture: how our human minds become able to build, maintain, and transmit cultural information. Outside of the study of ritual, Rohan examines the nature of imitation, and how children learn to distinguish between what is real and what is not real in the world.

    Rohan is interested in developmental, cross-cultural, and longitudinal modes of investigation, as well as introducing more computational modelling to the understanding of human behaviour.

References

Laland, Kevin. 2018. Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

Volk, T., and J. Atkinson. 2008. ‘Is Child Death the Crucible of Human Evolution?’, Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology 2.4: 247-60. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/h0099341.

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Published

2020-08-05

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2020): Special Issue: Religious Diversity and the Cognitive Science of Religion: New Experimental and Fieldwork Approaches

Section

Book Reviews

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How to Cite

Kapitány, R. (2020). James Cresswell, Culture and the Cognitive Science of Religion. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 14(1), 193-195. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.39043