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The list Cognitive science of religion includes Jesse Bering, E. Thomas Lawson, Dan Sperber, Pascal Boyer and Scott Atran. The list consists of 16 members.

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Cognitive science
interdisciplinary scientific study of the mind and its processes
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    Jesse Bering
    American psychologist
    Jesse Bering
    Overview: Jesse Michael Bering (born 6 May 1975) is an American psychologist, writer, and academic. He is Associate Professor in Science Communication at the University of Otago (where he serves as Director of the ...
    Date of birth: 6 May 1975
    Age: 50
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Educator
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    LGBT scientists from the United States 110T
    Jewish American academics 160T
    LGBT scientists 134T
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    E. Thomas Lawson
    Overview: Ernest Thomas (Tom) Lawson (born 27 November 1931, in Cape Town) is an honorary professor at the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen's University Belfast. He is the executive editor of the Journal ...
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Scientist
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    Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T
    Masaryk University faculty 38T
    Western Michigan University faculty 53T
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    Dan Sperber
    French academic
    Dan Sperber
    Overview: Dan Sperber (born 20 June 1942 in Cagnes-sur-Mer) is a French social and cognitive scientist. His most influential work has been in the fields of cognitive anthropology and linguistic pragmatics: deve ...
    Date of birth: 20 June 1942
    Age: 82
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Anthropologist
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    Pragmaticists 10T
    Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy 515T
    Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society 118T
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    Pascal Boyer
    French, Anthropologist
    Overview: Pascal Robert Boyer is a French-American cognitive anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist, mostly known for his work in the cognitive science of religion. He taught at the University of Cambridge ...
    Date of birth: 1990
    Date of death: 2000
    Age: 9 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Anthropologist
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    Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T
    French anthropologists 123T
    Washington University in St. Louis faculty 382T
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    Ilkka Pyysiäinen
    Finnish docent and doctor of theology (born 1959)
    Overview: Ilkka Eljas Pyysiäinen (born July 9, 1959) is a Finnish docent and doctor of theology, whose research has focused on cognitive science of religion. He has also studied religious thinking, religious la ...
    Date of birth: 9 July 1959
    Age: 65
    Nationality: Finnish
    Occupation: Critic
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    Ann Taves
    Religious Studies scholar
    Overview: Ann Taves is a professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a former President of the American Academy of Religion (2010). She holds the chair of Catholic Studies ...
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    Peter Richerson
    Biologist
    Overview: Peter James Richerson (born October 11, 1943) is an American biologist. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis ...
    Date of birth: 11 October 1943
    Age: 81
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Biologist
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    Joseph Henrich
    American evolutionary biologist
    Overview: Joseph Henrich (born 1968) is an American professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. Prior to arriving at Harvard, Henrich was a professor of psychology and economics at the University ...
    Date of birth: 1968
    Age: 57
    Nationality: Canadian
    Occupation: Anthropologist
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    Scott Atran
    Anthropologist
    Overview: Scott Atran (born February 6, 1952) is an American-French cultural anthropologist who is Emeritus Director of Research in Anthropology at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris, Research ...
    Date of birth: 1952
    Age: 73
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Anthropologist
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    Columbia College (New York) alumni 1,291T
    Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy faculty 18T
    Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society 118T
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    David Sloan Wilson
    American biologist
    David Sloan Wilson
    Overview: David Sloan Wilson (born 1949) is an American evolutionary biologist and a Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University. He is a son of the author Sloan Wilson ...
    Date of birth: 1949
    Age: 76
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Biologist
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    Extended evolutionary synthesis 38T
    American geneticists 457T
    Binghamton University faculty 100T
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    Overview: The International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion (IACESR), founded in 2006, is a scholarly association dedicated to the promotion of the Cognitive Science of Religion ...
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    Religious experience
    experience which has a strong, mystical character and a lasting impact on the subject
    Overview: A religious experience (sometimes known as a spiritual experience, sacred experience, mystical experience) is a subjective experience which is interpreted within a religious framework. The concept ori ...
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    Overview: Robert Boyd (born February 11, 1948) is an American anthropologist. He is Professor of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research interests include ...
    Date of birth: 11 February 1948
    Age: 77
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Anthropologist
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    Justin L. Barrett
    American academic
    Overview: Justin L. Barrett (born 1971) is Director of the Thrive Center for Human Development, Thrive Professor of Developmental Science, and Professor of Psychology at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology. He ...
    Date of birth: 1971
    Age: 54
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    Daniel McClellan (biblical scholar)
    American biblical scholar (born 1980)
    Overview: Daniel Orrin McClellan (born July 23, 1980) is an American scholar of the Bible and religion who shares his perspective on religious topics on social media.
    Date of birth: 23 July 1980
    Age: 44
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    Overview: Religious Experience Reconsidered (2009) is a book by Ann Taves on the study of religious experience. She proposes a new approach, which takes into account the attribution of religious meaning to specific ...
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