Seeking the supernatural: the Interactive Religious Experience Model
We develop a new model of how human agency-detection capacities and other socio-cognitive biases are involved in forming religious beliefs. Crucially, we distinguish general religious beliefs (such as God exists) from personal religious beliefs that directly refer to the agent holding the belief or...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge
2019
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Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2019, Volume: 9, Issue: 3, Pages: 221-251 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Theory of mind
/ The Supernatural
/ Plot
/ Recognizing
/ Religious experience
/ Interactionalism
/ Research method
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RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AE Psychology of religion |
Further subjects: | B
Belief
B indexicals B Religious Experience B Ritual B supernatural agents B Agency Detection B Intuition B Theory of mind |
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