Advances in the Cognitive Science of Religion

Editors

Armin W. Geertz [+–]

Aarhus University

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Armin W. Geertz is Emeritus Professor in the History of Religions at the Department of the Study of Religion, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is editor of the Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion and Advances in the Cognitive Science of Religion at Equinox. His interests and publications include the cognitive science of religion, evolutionary theory, psychology of religion, neuropsychology of religious experiences, ritual embodiment, method and theory in the study of religion, contemporary spirituality, and the religions of indigenous peoples. He recently co-authored The Emergence and Evolution of Religion: By Means of Natural Selection (Routledge 2018) together with Jonathan H. Turner, Alexandra Maryanski, and Anders Klostergaard Petersen.

Jesper Sørensen

Aarhus University

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Valerie van Mulukom [+–]

Coventry University

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Valerie completed her doctoral studies at the School of Psychology, the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 2014. There, she did work on the cognitive neuroscience of episodic memory and future event imagination. After her PhD, she completed a postdoctoral project at Aarhus University, Denmark, where she investigated the intersection between religious ritual and episodic memory. She then joined the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, where she worked on religion, memory, and group processes as part of the Ritual, Community, and Conflict project. Valerie joined the Brain, Belief, and Behaviour group at CABS, Coventry University, as Research Associate at the beginning of 2016. Research Interests: Belief; Cognitive science of religion; Imagination; Episodic memory; Creativity; Unbelief

This series seeks to publish empirical, experimental and theoretical studies in the cognitive science of religion. Cognition is here broadly conceived as consisting of both internal and bottom-up processes on the one hand and external, extended, materialized and top-down processes on the other. This series is committed to a conception of human beings as highly social, embodied, embrained and enculturated organisms. Therefore, studies that emphasize any or several of these aspects are welcomed.

This series incorporates the series Religion, Cognition, and Culture, formerly published by Routledge, and is associated with the Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, the official journal of the International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion.

The editors invite inquiries and submissions of book proposals.

Please send inquiries and manuscript proposals to:
Professor Armin W. Geertz
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