A Social Cognition Perspective of the Psychology of Religion ... - 9781350293908

A Social Cognition Perspective of the Psychology of ReligionWhy God Thinks Like You\""\nAuthor(s): Luke Galen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350293908, 978-1350293908\nSynopsis\nAn exploration of how psychological mechanisms produce intuitions, beliefs, behaviors, and experiences that are misattributed as being unique outcomes of religious or spiritual influences. Written from a social psychology perspective, this book proposes that religious and spiritual content represent one possible interpretation of the output of processes that also produce and govern nonreligious content.\n\n In looking at why people believe in God, and why belief in God is often linked with a range of positive outcomes such as prosociality, morality, health, and happiness, the author uses a critical lens that challenges past theories of religions functions and adds new perspectives into a discipline that is often limited by an .