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Résumé :

List of contributors
Introduction: Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-five Years, Luther H. Martin (University of Vermont, USA) and Donald Wiebe (University of Toronto, Canada)
Part One: Retrospectives
1. The Cognitive Science of Religion and the Growth of Knowledge, E. Thomas Lawson (Queen's University, Belfast, UK)
2. Twenty-Five Years In: Landmark Empirical Findings in the Cognitive Science of Religion, Robert N. McCauley (Emory University, USA)
3. Twenty-Five Years of CSR: A Personal Retrospective, Harvey Whitehouse (University of Oxford, UK)
4. The Beautiful Butterfly: On the History and Prospects of the Cognitive Science of Religion,
Uffe Schj?dt & Armin W. Geertz (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Part Two: State of the Art
5. Religion Explained? Some Variants of Cognitive Theory, Stewart Elliott Guthrie, (Fordham University, USA)
6. Cognitive Attractors in the Evolution and Diffusion of Religious Representations, Pascal Boyer (Washington University in St. Louis) & Nicolas Baumard (?cole Normale Sup?rieure Paris, France)
7. The Long Way from Cognitive Science to History: To Shorten the Distance and Fill in the Blanks, Panayotis Pachis & Olympia Panagiotidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
8. The Indispensability of Cognitive Science for a Genuine History of Religion, Anders Klostergaard Petersen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Part Three: CSR 2.0
9. Exiting the Motel of the Mysteries? How Historiographical Floccinaucinihilipilification Is Affecting CSR 2.0, Leonardo Ambasciano (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
10. Minimal Counterintuitiveness Revisited, Again: The Role of Emotional Valence in Memory for Conceptual Incongruity, Micheala Porubanova (State University of New York, Farmingdale, USA) & John H. Shaver (Victoria University of Wellington)
11. Constraints on Theory-Building in the Cognitive Science of Religion with Reflections on the Influence of Physics Envy and the Principle of Sufficient Reason, Benson Saler & Charles A. Ziegler (Brandeis University, USA)
12. The Effects of Relative Stable Feedback Loops: Cognitive Science and Historical Explanations, Jesper S?rensen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Part Four: Looking Forward
13. The Road Not Taken: Possible Paths for the Cognitive Science of Religion, Richard Sosis (University of Connecticut, USA)
14. Looking Back to Look Forward: From Shannon and Turing to Lawson and McCauley to.?, Justin Lane (Boston University, USA)
15. A Neo-Victorian Cognitive Science of Religion, Steven Hrotic (Independent Scholar)
Conclusion
16. On Keeping Cognitive Science of Religion Cognitive and Cultural, Justin L. Barrett (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA)
Bibliography
Index