Go Tell It on the Mountain: How the Cognitive Science of Religion Accounts for the Transmission of Religious Belief

The transmission of religious belief systems is hypothesized to result from certain innate cognitive faculties with which all humans are endowed. Research from the cognitive science of religion suggests that we have faculties that are highly sensitive to detecting agency in environmental stimuli and...

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Main Author: Eames, Kevin J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2013]
In: Journal for the sociological integration of religion and society
Year: 2013, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: [22]-30
Further subjects:B hypersensitive agency detection device
B Gods
B minimally counterintuitive agents
B cognitive science of religion
B ontological categories
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