Theological incorrectness : why religious people believe what they shouldn't /
Human minds are great at coming up with ideas that help them make sense of the world, but those ideas do not always accord with official religious beliefs. Slone presents discoveries from the cognitive science of religion and shows how they help us to understand exactly why it is that religious peop...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Human minds are great at coming up with ideas that help them make sense of the world, but those ideas do not always accord with official religious beliefs. Slone presents discoveries from the cognitive science of religion and shows how they help us to understand exactly why it is that religious people do and think things that they shouldn't. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 156 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-151) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423761723 9781423761723 0195169263 9780195169263 1280559063 9781280559068 |