The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion

by Pascal Boyer

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Why do people have religious ideas? And why those religious ideas? The main theme of Pascal Boyer's work is that important aspects of religious representations are constrained by universal properties of the human mind-brain. Experimental results from developmental psychology, he says, can explain why certain religious representations are more likely to be acquired, stored, and transmitted by human minds. Considering these universal constraints, Boyer...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0520075595

ISBN13:9780520075597

Release Date:February 1994

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:342 Pages

Weight:1.39 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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