Phantom Limbs, Extended Minds and the Decline of Religiosity: A Cognitive and Evolutionary Perspective
The purpose of this paper is to advance a hypothesis that might explain the decline of religious belief and practice among the so-called WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic) populations. The main point of this paper is to postulate a causal relationship between two variable...
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Open theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 630-641 |
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