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The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Naturalness of Religious IdeasThe main theme of this treatise is that important aspects of religious representation are constrained by the human mind. The author uses experimental results from developmental psychology to explain why certain religious representations are acquired and stored in the brain.
Full description- Publisher: University of California Press
- Published: 03 February 1994
- Format: Hardback 340 pages
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- Categories: Anthropology | Psychology | Child & Developmental Psychology | Philosophy | Philosophy Of Religion
- ISBN 13: 9780520075597 ISBN 10: 0520075595
- Sales rank: 756,441
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Full description for The Naturalness of Religious Ideas
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 proposes an exciting new answer to the question of why similar religious representations are found in so many different cultures. His work will be widely discussed by cultural anthropologists, psychologists, and students of religion, history, and philosophy.
