TY - BOOK ID - 2526633 TI - The naturalness of religious ideas : a cognitive theory of religion PY - 1994 SN - 0520075595 9780520911628 0520911628 0585135096 9780585135090 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Cognitive psychology KW - Cognitive science KW - Religion KW - Religion, Primitive KW - Atheism KW - God KW - Irreligion KW - Religions KW - Theology KW - Science KW - Philosophy of mind KW - Psychology, Cognitive KW - Psychology KW - Cognitive psychology. KW - Cognitive science. KW - Religion. KW - Cognitieve psychologie KW - Cognitieve wetenschap KW - Godsdienst KW - Psychologie [Cognitieve ] KW - Psychologie cognitive KW - Psychology [Cognitive ] KW - Religie KW - Sciences cognitives KW - Wetenschap [Cognitieve ] KW - Religion - General KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Anthropologie KW - Aspect religieux UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2526633 AB - 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. ER -