Arguments and Icons

• Presents an argument about `modes of religiosity' of interest to scholars in a number of disciplines
• Offers testable hypotheses, based on a particular ethnography but stimulating further enquiry and research
• Clear and precise style makes it accessible to a wide readership

Readership: Social and cultural anthropologists, students of Melanesian culture, psychologists with an interest in memory, historians of the Christian Reformation, archaeologists, political theorists

Harvey Whitehouse, Reader, School of Anthropological Studies, Queen's University of Belfast

"Arguments and Icons is ... a brilliant example of interdisciplinary work bearing on significant issues in the comparative study of religion in particular, and cognitive anthropology more generally...this volume should be considered required reading for those who fear reductionism but are interested in how cognition might bear on complicated cultural systems. Whitehouse preserves the rich complexity and detail of the phenomena under consideration while rendering it scientifically tractable." - Justin L. Barrett, Journal of Cognition and Culture

"Whitehouse's Inside the Cult (Oxford, 1995)...established a model for marrying cognitive science with field work. He's done it again." - Justin L. Barrett, Journal of Cognition and Culture