Description: Religion is a multi-faceted and complex human phenomenon, combining many different mental and social characteristics. Among these, language plays a crucial though often neglected role. This volume brings together groundbreaking work from linguistics, cognitive science and neuroscience, as well as from religious studies, in order to illuminate the origins and centrality of religion in human life.
Review Quotes: "This is a book highly recommended to researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds, theologians and priests but also lay people from different cultural and religious backgrounds. Most chapters can be consid-ered independently. But in any case, do not miss the splendid and informative introduction and overview." -- Pn. Dr. Sybille C. Fritsch-Oppermann, ESSSAT News & Reviews
"Religion, Language, and the Human Mind is a superb snapshot about what is going on in cognitive linguistics, religious studies, neuroscience, and everything in between. Readers will find something to their liking either for the enjoyment of learning, being intellectually challenged, or for the refinement of their own discipline. Highly recommended." -- Reading Religion