...University of Michigan (Ph.D., 2002). His 1995 article "Explaining order in religious systems" earned the Distinguished Article Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Dr. Malley currently lectures in psychology at the University of Michigan, and continues to pursue his research interests in religion and the intersection of culture and cognition.

How the Bible Works includes five chapters. Malley's introduction introduces the reader to his methodology, in which he planned to study a particular Christian church and determine the role of culture in transmitting cognitive beliefs from one person to another. How do people learn what a Biblical lifestyle is and how do they begin to imitate it? How does the Bible as a text come to have meaning for individuals? Malley, who describes himself as having been raised as a fundamentalist and a co-believer (p. 34), describes his book as "a step toward a distinctly anthropological theory of scriptural traditions" (p. 14), while admitting that...

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