Publication details
Shifting themes in the cognitive and evolutionary sciences of religion
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Article in Periodical (without peer review) |
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| Description | In their target article, White et al. celebrate the 30th anniversary of the cognitive science of religion (CSR), looking back on what has been done as well as into the possible futures that await this aca- demic discipline. We are joyous to join this celebration as we consider ourselves ardent members of this discipline and wish to see the discipline flourish. Indeed, most of us academically grew up on the works of the CSR founding figures – many of whom are the authors of the present target article – and when founding our lab, we were much inspired by their call for more empirical evidence that would test the proposed theoretical models.1 Yet, as the inevitable law of inter-generational dis- agreement dictates, we see the recent developments of CESR (where the additional “E” stands for evolution) and its near future fairly differently than White et al. In this spirit, our commentary offers several critical reflections on the target article, its scope as well as the proposed future direc- tions for CESR. |
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