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Author Boyer, Pascal.

Title The naturalness of religious ideas : a cognitive theory of religion / Pascal Boyer
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1994]
©1994

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 W'PONDS  200.19 Boy/Nor  AVAILABLE
Description xv, 324 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 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
Analysis Religion Psychology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-313) and index
Subject Cognitive psychology.
Cognitive science.
Religion.
LC no. 92037506
ISBN 0520075595 (hard : alk. paper)