Selective reading and selectionist thinking: Why violence has been, and should be, important to the cognitive science of religion
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion |
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| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.v2i1.1 |
| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | religion; prosociality; socioecological conditions; violence |
| Description | We agree with Martin and Wiebe that CSR researchers would benefit from the insights of ethnographers and historians and we commend them for drawing attention to both the prosocial and violent aspects of religion, as we think both are crucial for understanding religion's role in human sociality. Here we stress this point by drawing attention to the socioecological conditions under which we expect violence associated with religion to occur between, as well as within, groups. |
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