Breaking a Scientific Taboo: Putting Assumptions about the Supernatural into Scientific Theories of Religion
This paper demonstrates that it is feasible and useful to insert positive and negative assumptions about the supernatural into scientific theories of religion. The logic of constructing theories makes it possible to insert such statements into theories as postulates, along with ordinary propositions...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[1974]
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 1974, Volume: 13, Issue: 4, Pages: 393-408 |
Further subjects: | B
Psychological reinforcement
B Taboos B Religious Behavior B Individualism B Logical postulates B Christianity B suicide rates B Prayer B Rice |
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