Religion and Art
A Cognitive and Evolutionary Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12901245 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stewart Guthrie (Fordham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 283-311 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-4907 • E-ISSN: 1749-4915 |
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/jsrnc.v9i3.23971 |
| OpenAlex | W3161885111 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 23 |
Religion and art both have resisted scientific analysis and even definition. Multi-disciplinary research on these two and on cognition, however, supports particular definitions and analyses of both terms by setting them in a context of evolved strategies for dealing with cognitive uncertainty. In my view, what religion and art most importantly share is their attempt (shared also by science) to make sense of the world, and their Pascal?s Wager-like strategy (nominally not shared by science) of doing so first by positing human characteristics in non-human phenomena. This necessary, better-safe-than-sorry strategy cross-culturally results in representing the world as humanlike
Cognition · Cognitive science · Context (archaeology · Discipline · Epistemology · Pascal (unit · Social science · Sociology · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Psychedelics and Drug Studies · Psychology
Religion As Anthropomorphism at Çatalhöyük
Anatomy of Criticism
Professional physical scientists display tenacious teleological tendencies
Goal attribution to inanimate agents by 6.5-month-old infants
Why religion is nothing special but is central
Motion, emotion and empathy in esthetic experience
Visual Following and Pattern Discrimination of Face-like Stimuli by Newborn Infants
The living house
A Grammatical Approach to Personification Allegory
Minds at rest? Social cognition as the default mode of cognizing and its putative relationship to the “default system” of the brain
Differences and similarities in religious and paranormal beliefs
A Trans-Species Definition of Religion
The Case for Chimpanzee Religion
Living Statues
Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Person-Body Reasoning
"Are Children "Intuitive Theists
The Named and the Nameless
A stroll through the worlds of animals and men
Supernatural as a Western Category
What Makes Anthropomorphism Natural
African Traditional Thought and Western Science
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |