RELIGIOUS COGNITION IN CHINA : "homo religiosus" and the dragon
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Are human tendencies toward religious and spiritual thoughts, feelings, and actions outcomes of “natural” cognition? This volume revisits the “naturalness theory of religious cognition” through discussion of new qualitative and quantitative studies examining the psychological foundations of religious and spiritual expression in historical and contemporary China. Naturalness theory has been challenged on the grounds that little of its supporting developmental and experimental research has drawn on participants from predominantly secular cultural environments. Given China’s official secularity, its large proportion of atheists, and its alleged long history of dominant, nonreligious philosophies, can any broad claim for religion’s psychological “naturalness” be plausible? Addressing this empirical gap, the studies discussed in this volume support core naturalness theory predictions for human reasoning about supernatural agency, intelligent design, the efficacy of rituals, and vitalistic causality. And yet each study elucidates, expands upon, or even challenges outright the logical assumptions of the naturalness theory. Written for a non-specialist audience, this volume introduces the naturalness theory and frames the significance of these new findings for students and scholars of cultural psychology, the psychology of religion, the anthropology of religion, and Chinese Studies. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Introduction: Homo Religiosus and the Dragon (Justin L. Barrett, Ryan G. Hornbeck)....Pages 1-14 Front Matter ....Pages 15-15 Is Chinese (Lack of) Religion Exceptional? (David A. Palmer)....Pages 17-34 Chinese Thinking Styles and Religion (Li-Jun Ji, Emily Chan)....Pages 35-54 China as the Radical “Other”: Lessons for the Cognitive Science of Religion (Edward Slingerland)....Pages 55-76 Front Matter ....Pages 77-77 Promiscuous Teleology: From Childhood Through Adulthood and from West to East (Corey Kundert, Laird R. O. Edman)....Pages 79-96 Dogs, Santa Claus, and Sun Wukong: Children’s Understanding of Nonhuman Minds (Tyler S. Greenway, Gregory S. Foley, Brianna C. Nystrom, Justin L. Barrett)....Pages 97-109 Ritual Imbalance in Contemporary China: A Ritual Form Theory Analysis (Justin L. Barrett, Ryan G. Hornbeck, Brianna D. Bleeker, Skylar T. Barrett, Chenfeng Hao)....Pages 111-123 Religion Is Kid’s Stuff: Minimally Counterintuitive Concepts Are Better Remembered by Young People (Justin L. Barrett)....Pages 125-137 Intuitive Foundations of Conceptions of Vitality: The Case of Chinese Children’s Understanding of Illness Causation (Melanie Nyhof)....Pages 139-149 Do Chinese Children Believe in an Afterlife? (Liqi Zhu)....Pages 151-158 Front Matter ....Pages 159-159 High Gods, Low Gods, and Morality in Ancient China: Developing New Methods, Answering Old Questions (Ryan Nichols, Carson Logan)....Pages 161-177 Moral Cognition Empowers Spiritual Experience in Chinese World of Warcraft (Ryan G. Hornbeck)....Pages 179-194 Examining Religion and Well-Being Across Cultures: The Cognitive Science of Religion as Sextant (Michael Harris Bond, Vivian Miu-Chi Lun)....Pages 195-214 Erratum to: Do Chinese Children Believe in an Afterlife? (Liqi Zhu)....Pages E1-E1 Back Matter ....Pages 215-221
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