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The naturalness of religious ideas : a cognitive theory of religion

eBook, English, ©1994
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©1994
1 online resource (xv, 324 pages)
9780520911628, 9780585135090, 0520911628, 0585135096
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pt. 1. Religious ideas as conceptual structures
Recurrence, naturalness, and under-determination
The varieties of religious representations
Two aspects of conceptual structures
pt. 2. Four repertoires of religious representations
Natural ontologies and supernatural furniture
Causal judgments
Essentialism and social categories
Ritual episodes and religious assumptions
pt. 3. A sketch of cultural transmission
Cross-strengthening, religious truth, and stability
Cultural transmission and the biology in history
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