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The Naturalness of Religious Ideas

A Cognitive Theory of Religion

  • Hardback
  • 342 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • 16.3 x 23.7 x 3 cm

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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 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.
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  • Author

    Pascal Boyer

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    University of California Press

  • Published

    February 1994

  • Weight

    632g

  • Page Count

    342

  • Dimensions

    16.3 x 23.7 x 3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780520075597

  • ISBN-10

    0520075595

  • Eden Code

    1226135

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