Antropologicheskij forum, 2019, no. 42

A Review of LUTHER H. MARTIN, DONALD WIEBE (eds.), RELIGION EXPLAINED? THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF RELIGION AFTER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, 272 pp.

Svetlana Tambovtseva
European University at St Petersburg
6/1А Gagarinskaya Str ., St Petersburg, Russia
Institute of Russian Literature (The Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences
4 Makarova Emb., St Petersburg, Russia
stambovtseva()eu.spb.ru

Abstract: The present volume summarizes the basic contributions that have been made within the cognitive science of religion over the past twenty-five years and celebrates the development of the field. Opposing the orientation towards the explanatory approach to the one of interpretive anthropology, cognitive psychologists believe that interdisciplinary ambitions and positivistic infusions have proved handy to the intellectual field associated with humanities. At the same time, working on the academic status and the identity elaboration of the discipline turns out to be challenging and opens a space for reflections on the importance of the CSR’s “border maintenance” and the aesthetic implications of its marginal position in science.

Keywords: cognitive science of religion, positivism, definition of religion, explanatory pluralism, intuitive ontology.

To cite: Tambovtseva S., ‘A Review of Luther H. Martin, Donald Wiebe (eds.), Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, 272 рр.’, Antropologicheskij forum, 2019, no. 42, pp. 215–230.

doi: 10.31250/1815-8870-2019-15-42-215-230

URL: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/042/tambovtseva.pdf