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Cognitive science of new religious movements is the study of new religious movements (NRMs) from the perspective of cognitive science.[1][2][3] The field employs methods and theories from a variety of disciplines, including cognitive science of religion, sociology of religion, scientific study of religion, anthropology, and artificial life. Scholars in the field seek to explain the origin and evolution of new religious movements in terms of ordinary universal cognitive processes.

  1. ^ Upal, Muhammad Afzal (2005). "Towards a Cognitive Science of New Religious Movements" (PDF). Journal of Cognition and Culture. 5 (1–2): 214–239. doi:10.1163/1568537054068598. Archived from the original on August 30, 2006.
  2. ^ Upal, Muhammad Afzal (2017). Moderate Fundamentalists: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at in the Lens of Cognitive Science of Religion. Warsaw, Poland: De Gruyter. ISBN 9783110556643.
  3. ^ Lockhart, Alastair (2020). "New religious movements and quasi-religion: Cognitive science of religion at the margins". Archive for the Psychology of Religion. 42: 101–122. doi:10.1177/0084672420910809. S2CID 216244102.

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