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By István Czachesz

ISBN-10: 0198779860

ISBN-13: 9780198779865

over the past few a long time, our wisdom of the way the human brain and mind works elevated dramatically. the sector of cognitive technology permits us to appreciate non secular traditions, rituals, and visionary studies in novel methods. This has implications for the research of the recent testomony and early Christianity. How humans within the old Mediterranean global remembered sayings and tales, what they skilled while partaking in rituals, how they thought of magic
and miracle, and the way they felt and reasoned approximately ethical questions—all of that may be now larger understood with the aid of insights from cognitive technological know-how. István Czachesz argues that the sphere of recent testomony stories witnesses the start of a cognitive flip. He surveys suitable developments
in the Cognitive technological know-how of faith and explores the sphere of cognitive and behavioral sciences looking for possibilities of gaining new insights approximately biblical fabrics. Czachesz provides a few methodological instruments and preliminary steps, including lots of examples of employing the cognitive method of the hot testomony and comparable historic literature.

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