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Supernatural Agents: Why We Believe in Souls, Gods, and Buddhas Pyysiainen, Iikka (Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Academy of Finland and Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)
Supernatural Agents: Why We Believe in Souls, Gods, and Buddhas
Pyysiainen, Iikka (Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Academy of Finland and Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)
The cognitive science of religion is a rapidly growing field whose practitioners apply insights from advances in cognitive science in order to provide a better understanding of religious impulses, beliefs, and behaviors. In this book Ilkka Pyysiäinen shows how this methodology can profitably be used in the comparative study of beliefs about superhuman agents.
298 pages, 1 black and white halftone illustration
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 30, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195380026 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 304 |
| Dimensions | 243 × 165 × 24 mm · 617 g |
| Language | English |