Ilkka Pyysiäinen
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Finnish cognitive science of religion scholar
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Ilkka Pyysiäinen's Degrees
- PhD Theology University of Helsinki
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ilkka Eljas Pyysiäinen is a Finnish docent and doctor of theology, whose research has focused on cognitive science of religion. He has also studied religious thinking, religious language, and religious experience. Pyysiäinen is also known as an atheist and a critic of religion.
Ilkka Pyysiäinen's Published Works
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Published Works
- How Religion Works: Towards a New Cognitive Science of Religion (2001) (137)
- The origins of religion : evolved adaptation or by-product? (2010) (106)
- BUDDHISM, RELIGION, AND THE CONCEPT OF "GOD" (2003) (99)
- Supernatural Agents: Why We Believe in Souls, Gods, and Buddhas (2009) (79)
- Intuitive and Explicit in Religious Thought (2004) (47)
- Counterintuitiveness as the hallmark of religiosity (2003) (46)
- Current approaches in the cognitive science of religion (2002) (45)
- Why Religion is Natural and Science Is Not, by Robert N. McCauley. Oxford University Press, 2011. 335pp. Hb. $29.95. ISBN-13: 9780199827268. (2012) (44)
- Cognitive Science of Religion: State-of-the-Art (2012) (34)
- The Evolution of Morality and Religion (2017) (16)
- Religion in Mind: Cognition, emotion, and religious experience (2001) (14)
- Biblical Interpretation Series (2007) (14)
- Ontology of Culture and the Study of Human Behavior (2002) (13)
- Folk religion and theological correctness (2004) (11)
- Holy Book — a Treasury of the Incomprehensible. The Invention of Writing and Religious Cognition (1999) (11)
- God: A Brief History with a Cognitive Explanation of the Concept (2005) (10)
- Introduction: Social And Cognitive Perspectives In The Study Of Christian Origins And Early Judaism (2007) (9)
- Explaining Christian Origins and Early Judaism (2007) (7)
- On the 'Innateness' of Religion: A Comment on Bering (2003) (7)
- Mind and Miracles (2002) (7)
- Explaining Christian Origins and Early Judaism (2007) (7)
- Introduction: Religion, cognition, and culture (2008) (6)
- No evidence of a specific adaptation (2006) (6)
- Explaining Christian Origins and Early Judaism: Contributions from Cognitive and Social Science (2016) (5)
- 'God' as ultimate reality in religion and in science (1999) (5)
- Putting Cognition and Culture Back Together Again: Religion in Mind and Society (2012) (5)
- A Theory of Ideology: Implications for Religion and Science (2002) (5)
- Dual-process theories and hybrid systems (2003) (5)
- Religion, Economy, and Cooperation (2010) (5)
- Religion is neither costly nor beneficial (2004) (5)
- Beyond language and reason : mysticism in Indian Buddhism (1993) (4)
- God is great – but not necessary? On Ara Norenzayan, Big Gods (2013) (2014) (4)
- Phenomenology of Religion and Cognitive Science: The Case of Religious Experience. Why Phenomenology and Cognitive Science? Categories, Taxonomies and Comparison (2000) (3)
- The cognitive science of religion (2014) (3)
- Rethinking ‘God’: the concept of ‘God’ as a category in comparative religion (1999) (3)
- Servants of Two Masters: Religion, Economy, and Cooperation (2010) (3)
- Jñānagarbha and the “God's‐eye view” (1996) (2)
- Memories: Religion and Cultural Transmission (2006) (2)
- THEISM RECONSIDERED: BELIEF IN GOD AND THE EXISTENCE OF GOD (2015) (2)
- Religion, Theology, and Cognition: On Reading Paul Tillich (2014) (1)
- The Concept of 'God' as a Category in Com- parative Religion (1999) (1)
- Does meditation swamp working memory? (2006) (1)
- Gods, Genes, and Passions (2003) (1)
- Religion, Délire and Counterintuitiveness (2005) (1)
- Editorial (2008) (1)
- Method and Theory in Finland an Iahr Regional Meeting University of Turku, August 4-7, 1997 (1999) (1)
- The Mind Possessed: The Cognition of Spirit Possession in an Afro-Brazilian Religious Tradition (2008) (0)
- Fear, Disgust, and Territory: A Comment on Martin and Wiebe (2013) (0)
- Mind Your Heads (2009) (0)
- Servants of two masters: Religion, economy, and evolution (2010) (0)
- 22. Religion and the Brain: Cognitive Science as a Basis for Theories of Religion (2017) (0)
- Religion, Fear, and Disgust: A Comment on Martin and Wiebe (2016) (0)
- Imagine there’s no religion: A commentary on Murray and Schloss (2011) (0)
- Not-Self (Anattâ) and Mysticism (2012) (0)
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow? Cosmogony and Mystical Decreation (1998) (0)
- Sounds of Silence. «Mystical» Paradox in the Atthakavagga (2000) (0)
- Imagine there is no religion (2011) (0)
- God as Supernatural Agent (2009) (0)
- Buddhist Supernatural Agents (2009) (0)
- Souls, Ghosts, and Shamans (2009) (0)
- Memories: Religion and cultural transmission (a book review essay based on Peter Richerson and Robert Boyd, Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution, & Harvey Whitehouse, Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission.) (2004) (0)
- Conclusion: Moving towards a new science of religion; or, have we already arrived? (2013) (0)
- Forestilling og handling (2005) (0)
- The Mystery Of The Stolen Body: Exploring Christian Origins (2007) (0)
- Christianity and the Roots of Morality: Philosophical, Early Christian, and Empirical Perspectives (2017) (0)
- Paradise Regained: The Religious Features of Primal Therapy (1992) (0)
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