E. Thomas Lawson
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E. Thomas Lawson's Degrees
- Masters Mathematics University of Oxford
Why Is E. Thomas Lawson Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ernest Thomas Lawson is an honorary professor at the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen's University Belfast. He is the executive editor of the Journal of Cognition and Culture and co-founder of the North American Association for the Study of Religion . He is a founding member and has served as the first President of the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion .
E. Thomas Lawson's Published Works
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Published Works
- Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture (1990) (429)
- Bringing ritual to mind : psychological foundations of cultural forms (2002) (360)
- Minds and gods : the cognitive foundations of religion (2006) (162)
- Ritual Intuitions: Cognitive Contributions to Judgments of Ritual Efficacy (2001) (96)
- Maternal Defense (2011) (65)
- Crisis of conscience, riddle of identity. Making space for a cognitive approach to religious phenomena (1993) (46)
- TOWARDS A COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF RELIGION (2000) (46)
- Religions of Africa: Traditions in Transformation (1984) (33)
- Evoked culture, ritualization and religious rituals (2008) (21)
- A NEW LOOK AT THE SCIENCE‐AND‐RELIGION DIALOGUE (2005) (21)
- Bringing Ritual to Mind: Contents (2002) (20)
- Are Motor Collective Rituals as Rigid as They Seem? A Test Case of a Zulu Wedding Dance (2013) (16)
- Cognition, Religious Ritual, and Archaeology (2007) (15)
- Religion as a human capacity : a festschrift in honor of E. Thomas Lawson (2004) (14)
- Theory and the new comparativism, old and new (1996) (11)
- Ritual as language (1976) (10)
- Cognitive aspects of religious symbolism: Cognitive categories, cultural forms and ritual structures (1993) (10)
- The Psychology of Creative Writing: Creative Cognition in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing (2009) (9)
- Functionalism Reconsidered (1984) (8)
- Who owns 'culture'?1 (1996) (8)
- ACADEMIC STUDY OF RELIGION (1973) (7)
- Religion in Mind: Psychological perspectives on agency (2001) (7)
- Bringing Ritual to Mind: Ritual and memory: frequency and flashbulbs (2002) (7)
- Religious thought and behavior. (2012) (6)
- Defining Religion… Going the Theoretical Way (1998) (5)
- Interactionism and the Non-Obviousness of Scientific Theories: a Response To Michael P. Levine (1998) (5)
- Rethinking Conventional Wisdom: Ecological Effects on Potential Danger Preoccupation Salience (2015) (5)
- The Cognitive Representation of Religious Ritual Form : A Theory of Participants ' Competence with their Religious Ritual Systems (2008) (5)
- The Explanation of Myth and Myth as Explanation (1978) (5)
- Naturalism and Protectionism in the Study of Religions (2020) (3)
- Who owns ' culture ' ? 1 (2007) (3)
- Rejoinder: Caring for the Details: A Humane Reply to Buckley and Buckley (1995) (2)
- Religious Transformations and Socio-Political Change (1992) (1)
- Radical Interpretation in Religion: On interpreting the world religiously (2002) (1)
- Philosophical, Neurological, and Sociological Perspectives on Religion (2019) (1)
- Explaining religion: A symposium: Introduction (1989) (1)
- Review Feature: A review of The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art by David Lewis-Williams. London: Thames & Hudson, 2002. ISBN 0-500-05117-8 hardback £18.95 & US$29.95; 320 pp., 66 figs., 29 colour plates (2003) (1)
- Neural Correlates of Coalitionary and Violent Behavior Tendencies (2010) (1)
- Counterintuitive Notions and the Problem of Transmission: The Relevance of Cognitive Science for the Study of History (2016) (1)
- METHODOLOGY: ACADEMIC STUDY OF RELIGION (1977) (0)
- Girls in Mining in Ghana: Surviving Without Flourishing (2016) (0)
- How to Create a Religion (2019) (0)
- General profiles of religious ritual systems: the emerging cognitive science of religion (2002) (0)
- Dispatches From the Methodological Wars (1991) (0)
- 1 Cognitive constraints on religious ritual form : a theory of participants ’ competence with religious ritual systems (2004) (0)
- Keeping religion in mind (1999) (0)
- Bringing Ritual to Mind: Assessing the two hypotheses (2002) (0)
- Cultural Variation in Vigilance and Precaution Themes (2012) (0)
- - CHAPTER 5-Connecting the Cognitive and the Cultural : Artificial Minds as Methodological Devices in the Study of the Sociocultural (2013) (0)
- The Relevance of Cognitive Science for the History of Religions (2004) (0)
- Scott. Atran, In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. vii+400 pp. $35.00 (cloth). (2004) (0)
- Governance as Conventional Wisdom (2014) (0)
- Rethinking Conventional Wisdom: Ecological Effects on Potential Danger Preoccupation Salience (2015) (0)
- Two hypotheses concerning religious ritual and emotional stimulation (2002) (0)
- Bringing Ritual to Mind: References (2002) (0)
- Bringing Ritual to Mind: Cognitive constraints on religious ritual form: a theory of participants' competence with religious ritual systems (2002) (0)
- Report on the Religion and Teacher Education Program at Western Michigan University (2014) (0)
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