Intentional systems theory and the empirical study of religion
Intentional systems and common sense
Intentional systems in the works of Durkheim, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard
Amazonian folk religion
Theory of intentional systems
Systems thinking
Composition of intentional systems
Structure of intentional systems
Belief as a theoretical and functional entity
Religious intentional systems
Religious contents and their dynamics
Hallmark of religious contents
Gods in flabbergast, a constructed religion
Cultural models as systems of contents
Dynamics of contents : tradition ecology
Tradition ecology and illness models
Rationality as systemic property
Rationality as a precondition of ethnographic descriptions
Rationality as an explanatory principle
Rationality and religious games
Rationality and critical study of religion
Navigating in the world of uncertainty
Possible worlds
Cultural models of time
Playing against Yashingo
Playing against technological risks
Playing against market forces
Playing against superior beings in archaic and modern societies
Imposing the features of religions into other cultural systems
Concepts of boundary and sacred
Intentional systems and boundaries
Foundations and uses of boundaries
Sacred as a boundary that involves supernatural entities.
Intentional systems theory as a conceptual framework for religious studies : a scientific method for studying beliefs by Matti Kamppinen. ISBN 9780773414129. Published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.