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The Naturalness of Religious Ideas

A Cognitive Theory of Religion

Pascal Boyer

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik

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Why do people have religious ideas? And why thosereligious 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.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
Why do people have religious ideas? And why thosereligious 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 fro

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anthropology, comparative religion, human minds, developmental psychology, religion, religious philosophy, religious representations, sociology, human brain, cognitive science of religion, history of religion, evolution, religious ideas, science and religion, universal constraints, psychology, philosophy, mind and brain, epistemology, religious studies, universal properties