Imagining the impossible : magical, scientific, and religious thinking in children /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rosengren, Karl Sven, Johnson, Carl N., 1949-, Harris, Paul L., 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • The makings of the magical mind: the nature and function of sympathetic magical thinking / Carol Nemeroff and Paul Rozin
  • Phenomenalistic perception and rational understanding in the mind of an individual: a fight for dominance / Eugene Subbotsky
  • Metamorphosis and magic: the development of children's thinking about possible events and plausible mechanisms / Karl S. Rosengren and Anne K. Hickling
  • The development of beliefs about direct mental-physical causality in imagination, magic, and religion / Jacqueline D. Woolley
  • Intuitive ontology and cultural input in the acquisition of religious concepts / Pascal Boyer and Sheila Walker
  • On not falling down to Earth: children's metaphysical questions / Paul L. Harris
  • Putting different things together: the development of metaphysical thinking / Carl N. Johnson
  • Versions of personal storytelling/versions of experience: genres as tools for creating alternate realities / Peggy J. Miller ... [et al.]
  • The influence of religious beliefs on parental attitudes about children's fantasy behavior / Marjorie Taylor and Stephanie M. Carlson
  • Religion, culture, and beliefs about reality in moral reasoning / Elliot Turiel and Kristin Neff
  • Beyond Scopes: why creationism is here to stay / E. Margaret Evans
  • Knowledge change in response to data in science, relgion, and magic / Clark A. Chinn and William F. Brewer
  • Theology and physical science: a story of developmental influence at the boundaries / David E. Schrader.