The epidemiology of beliefs: A naturalistic approach

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Abstract

I would like to bring together two sets of speculations: anthropological speculations on cultural representations and psychological speculations on the cognitive organization of beliefs, and to put forward, on the basis of these speculations, fragments of a possible answer to the question: how do beliefs become cultural? I will not apologize for the speculative character of the attempt. At this stage, either the question is answered in a vague, fragmentary and tentative way, or it must be left alone: there is not enough sound theorizing and well-regimented evidence in the domain to do otherwise.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationReligion and Cognition
Subtitle of host publicationA Reader
Pages36-53
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)9781315539423
StatePublished - 1 Apr 2016

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Arts and Humanities

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