Idolatry, indifference, and the scientific study of religion: two new Humean arguments
We utilize contemporary cognitive and social science of religion to defend a controversial thesis: the human cognitive apparatus gratuitously inclines humans to religious activity oriented around entities other than the God of classical theism. Using this thesis, we update and defend two arguments d...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2020]
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Religious studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 56, Issue: 4, Pages: 488-508 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hume, David 1711-1776
/ Theism
/ God
/ Idolatry
/ Indifference
/ Atheism
/ Science of Religion
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion |
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