Maps of meaning : the architecture of belief

Preface - Descensus ad inferos. 1 Maps of experience: object and meaning. 2 Maps of meaning: three levels of analysis. 3 Apprenticeship and enculturation: adoption of a shared map. 4 The appearance of anomaly: challenge to the shared map. 5 The hostile brothers: archetypes of response to the unknown

'...a provocative new hypothesis that explores the connection berween what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths and religious stories have long narrated....draws insights from the worlds of religion, cognitive science and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative.'

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