The course will introduce the current interdisciplinary approach to the study of religion, called the cognitive science of religion. The course introduces to the platform of experimental research (including its pros and cons), which is an essential research tool for the CSR. Students will also learn about differences of field and laboratory experiments, and they will become familiar with the researches related to religiously motivated thinking and behavior, based on the importance of interconnection of humanities and natural sciences (such as psychology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, evolutionary biology, neuroscience and informatics in religion research).
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Boyer, P. (2001). Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought.. Basic Books, New York.
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Geertz, A. W. (2004). Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Religion.? In: New Approaches to the Study of Religion II. de Gruyter, Berlin, 347?399.
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Chalupa, A. (ed.). (2014). Pantheon (monotematické číslo časopisu). č. 9/1.
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Kotherová, S. (2015). Problematika experimentálního výzkumu buddhistických meditací. in Sociální studia. Masarykova univerzita, roč. 12, č. 4, s. 73-93.
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Schjoedt, U. (2009). The Religious Brain: A General Introduction to the Experimental Neuroscience of Religion. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 21, s. 310-339.
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Sorensen, J. (2005). Religion in Mind: Review Article of the Cognitive Science of Religion. Numen 52/4: 465?494.
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Xygalatas, D., Kotherová, S., Maňo, P., Kundt, R., Cigán, J., Kundtová Klocová, E., Lang, M. (2017). Big Gods in small places : the Random Allocation Game in Mauritius. in Religion, Brain & Behavior.. Routledge, s. 1-19.
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