Cognitive Science of Religion and Belief Systems

This book is an introduction to cognitive science of religion and other belief systems. Cognitive science is the study of the mind, looking at areas such as thought, learning, intuition, information processing and mental organization. It is multidisciplinary, including psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, computer science, artificial intelligence and linguistics. Thus, this book is about cognitive science and its approach to studying how humans come to their religious and nonreligious beliefs and belief systems.