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by James W. Jones

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The "New Atheist" movement of recent years has put the science-versus-religion controversy back on the popular cultural agenda. Anti-religious polemicists are convinced that the application of the new sciences of the mind to religious belief gives them the final weapons in their battle against irrationality and superstition. What used to be a trickle of research papers scattered in specialized scientific journals has now become a torrent of books, articles, and commentary in the popular media pressing the case that the cognitive science of religion can finally fulfill the enlightenment dream of shrinking religion into insignificance, if not eliminating it altogether. James W. Jones argues that these claims are demonstrably false. He notes that cognitive science research is religiously neutral; it can be deployed in many different ways in relation to the actual belief in and practice of religion: to undermine it, to simply study it, and to support it. These different approaches, Jones suggests, reflect the background assumptions and viewpoints brought to the interpretation of the data.

The goal of this book is not to defend either a general religious outlook or a particular religious tradition, but to make the case that while there is much to learn from the cognitive scientific study of religion, attempts to use it to "explain" religion are exaggerated and misguided. Drawing on scientific research and logical argument Can Science Explain Religion? directly confronts the claims of these debunkers of religion, providing an accessibly written, persuasive account of why they are not convincing.

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  • Title Can Science Explain Religion?: The Cognitive Science Debate
  • Author James W. Jones
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, 2016. 248p. Hardback.
  • Publication date 2015-10-28
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780190249380 / 0190249382
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.9 in (21.08 x 14.48 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Religion - Commentaries / Reference
  • Library of Congress subjects Religion and science
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2015005056
  • Dewey Decimal Code 201.65

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  • Choice, 06/01/2016, Page 0
  • New York Times Book Review, 02/14/2016, Page 31

About the author

James W. Jones is Distinguished Professor of Religion at Rutgers University. He is the author of fifteen books and numerous professional papers, and the editor of several volumes of collected papers dealing with religion, psychology, and science. He serves on the editorial boards of several publications. He is an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church USA and has maintained a private practice of clinical psychology, specializing in psychophysiology and behavioral medicine.
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