Mind and Religion: Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religion

This collection examines new psychological evidence for the modal theory and attempts to synthesize this theory with other theories of cognition and religion.

Harvey Whitehouse is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen’s University Belfast. Robert N. McCauley is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University in Atlanta. He is the author, with E. Thomas Lawson, of Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture (1990) and Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms (2002).