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Subject: Language and Religion: Downes
 

	
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Title: Language and Religion 
Subtitle: A Journey into the Human Mind 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	
Author: William Downes

Hardback: ISBN:  9780521792233 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 60.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9780521792233 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 99.00


Abstract:

Language and Religion offers an innovative theory of religion as a class of
cultural representations, dependent on language to unify diverse capacities
of the human mind. It argues that religion is widespread because it is
implicit in the way the mind processes the world, as it determines what we
ought to do, practically and morally, to achieve our goals. Focusing on the
world religions, the book relates modern cognitive theories of language and
communication to culture and its dissemination. It explains basic features
of religion such as the supernatural, the normative, abstract and ideal
theological concepts such as 'God', and religious feeling. It develops a
linguistic theory, based on how utterances are understood, of metaphysical
and moral 'mysteries' and their key role in thought and action. It shows
how such concepts gain strength in the light of their successful use, and
when tempered by criticism, can also have genuine authority. 



Introduction; 

1. A cognitive theory of religion; 
2. The supernatural and the uses of the intentional; 
3. Dissemination and the comprehension of mysteries; 
4. Pragmatics and pragmatism; 
5. Authority; 
6. Conceptual innovation and revelatory language. 


Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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