International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion

The IACESR supports the Electronic Archive for Religion & Cognition at the Centre for Religion & Cognition, Groningen, the Journal of Cognition & Culture (Brill Publishers), and two-book series, Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation (Bloomsbury Academic), which was formerly the series Cognitive Science of Religion (AltaMira Press), and Religion, Cognition and Culture (Equinox Press).

History

The IACESR was founded in 2006 as the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion (IACSR), and the inaugural meeting took place in Aarhus University, in Denmark.The name of the association was changed to The International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion (IACESR) in 2020.

First General Assembly: January 7, 2006, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Second General Assembly: May 30, 2008, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Third General Assembly: August 16, 2010, University of Toronto, Canada.

Fourth General Assembly: June 25, 2012, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Fifth General Assembly: June 20, 2014, LEVYNA, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Sixth General Assembly: August 22, 2016, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Seventh General Assembly: August 12–16, 2018, Boston, MA, USA.

Eighth General Assembly: September 21, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Other IACESR meetings:

July 29, 2009, at the Free University of Amsterdam, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.