01727nam a2200289Ia 4500 TVU_11278 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 0195335619 9780195335613 eng 200.19 J39 Slone, D. Jason Theological incorrectness why religious people believe what they shouldn't D. Jason Slone Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2004 ix, 156 p. ill. 22 cm Included bibliography and index Why do religious people believe what they shouldn't -- not what others think they shouldn't believe, but things that don't accord with their own avowed religious beliefs? D. Jason Slone terms this phenomenon "theological incorrectness." He argues that it exists because the mind is built in such a way that it's natural for us to think divergent thoughts simultaneously. Human minds are great at coming up with innovative ideas that help them make sense of the world, he says, but those ideas do not always jibe with official religious beliefs. From this fact we derive the important lesson that what we learn from our environment -- religious ideas, for example -- does not necessarily cause us to behave in ways consistent with that knowledge. Slone presents the latest discoveries from the cognitive science of religion and shows how they help us to understand exactly why it is that religious people do and think things that they shouldn't Psychology; Religious; Cognitive consistency D. Jason Slone Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh