The naturalness of religious ideas : a cognitive theory of religion /
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...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1994
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Table of Contents:
- Recurrence, naturalness, and under-determination
- The varieties of religious representations
- Two aspects of conceptual structures
- Natural ontologies and supernatural furniture
- Causal judgments
- Essentialism and social categories
- Ritual episodes and religious assumptions
- Cross-strengthening, religious truth, and stability
- Cultural transmission and the biology in history
- Pt. 1 Religious Ideas as Conceptual Structures
- 1. Recurrence, Naturalness, and Under-Determination
- 2. Varieties of Religious Representations
- 3. Two Aspects of Conceptual Structures
- Pt. 2. Four Repertoires of Religious Representations
- 4. Natural Ontologies and Supernatural Furniture
- 5. Causal Judgments
- 6. Essentialism and Social Categories
- 7. Ritual Episodes and Religious Assumptions
- Pt. 3. Sketch of Cultural Transmission
- 8. Cross-Strengthening, Religious Truth, and Stability
- 9. Cultural Transmission and the Biology in History.
- Pt. 1 Religious Ideas as Conceptual Structures. 1. Recurrence, Naturalness, and Under-Determination. 2. The Varieties of Religious Representations. 3. Two Aspects of Conceptual Structures
- Pt. 2. Four Repertoires of Religious Representations. 4. Natural Ontologies and Supernatural Furniture. 5. Causal Judgments. 6. Essentialism and Social Categories. 7. Ritual Episodes and Religious Assumptions
- Pt. 3. A Sketch of Cultural Transmission. 8. Cross-Strengthening, Religious Truth, and Stability. 9. Cultural Transmission and the Biology in History.