Can Science Explain Religion JW Jones

This book opens with the claim that ‘antireligious polemicists’ have found in cognitive science a new weapon in their ‘battle’ against religion (1). Writings by Jesse Bering, Richard Dawkins, and Daniel Dennett are singled out as exemplary of this trend but also because they have takenthe debate about religion ‘out of the scholarly journals and academic conferences and into the public domain’ (2). Jones pitches this book to these same publics, to critically evaluate cognitive explanations of religion, the evidence base they draw upon and what can be learnt fromcognitive approaches.