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Book: The Western Epistemic Tradition and the Scientific Study of Religion

Chapter: The Deep History of the Scientific Study of Religious Thought and Behaviour

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.44004

Blurb:

The ‘deep history’ of the cognitive capacities of the human mind will account for both the early mythic and religious modes of human thought, as well as for the social and cultural developments that led to the creation of a scientific mode of thought that made possible the scientific study of myth, magic, and religion.

Chapter Contributors

  • Donald Wiebe (dwiebe@trinity.utoronto.ca - donwiebe) 'University of Toronto'