| Authors
Two of the authors whose work we will be studying in this course have
abstracts or copies of some of their papers on their websites, in addition
to bibliographies of their published work.
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Resources
Cognitive Approaches to Religion
Religious Studies 202
University of Pennsylvania
Fall 2002
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This page does not contain resources directly necessary for this course, but rather information about the field that we are studying in the course. Last minute information about the course will be posted on the Schedule page as necessary, or emailed to students. Changes in assignments will be posted to the daily assignment pages. |
| Authors
Two of the authors whose work we will be studying in this course have
abstracts or copies of some of their papers on their websites, in addition
to bibliographies of their published work.
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| Institutional Resources
International Culture and Cognition
Program (University of Michigan and Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)
Cognitive Science Initiative at the University of Houston. They have an online bibliography and a lexicon. American Academy of Religion. The main scholarly organization for American scholars of religion. They maintain a decent database of online syllabi. |
| Journals
Journal of Cognition and Culture. Only in its second year of publication, this journal is edited by E. Thomas Lawson and Pascal Boyer. This appears to be the main outlet in which cognitive work on religion will be published in coming years. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. A big, glossy journal published
by Elsevier. Basically a popular work for academics, which provides
good overviews of recent scholarship and bibliographies that allow access
to high quality research. Apparently Penn does not yet subscribe
to the online version.
Journal
for the Scientific Study of Religion. Most of the articles in
this journal belong to the social scientific approach to religion, but
the editors accept good, psychologically-oriented articles when they receive
them.
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. Focusing on methodology
and theory in the academic study of religion, this journal accepts articles
from a wide variety of perspectives.
Journal of Ritual
Studies. Much of cognitive research in religion focuses on ritual.
This is the main journal for the field of "ritual studies", and thus provides
a good overview of areas of current research.
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| Surveys of the Field
Both of the following articles provide a reasonably good overview of
some of the issues presented by this new and rapidly evolving subfield
of religious studies. Neither are available online.
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