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Exploring the natural foundations of religion

open access: yesTrends in Cognitive Sciences, 2000
A new cognitive approach to religion is bringing fresh insights to our understanding of how religious concepts are maintained, acquired and used to motivate and direct actions.
Barrett, Justin L.
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On the Naturalness of Religion

Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2013
Some scholars of religion argue that human cognitive systems inevitably yield religious beliefs and commitments.
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Religion is natural

Developmental Science, 2006
AbstractDespite its considerable intellectual interest and great social relevance, religion has been neglected by contemporary developmental psychologists. But in the last few years, there has been an emerging body of research exploring children's grasp of certain universal religious ideas.
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The Naturalization of Religion

2020
“The Naturalization of Religion” This chapter fills an important gap in the atheist naturalist account. If there are no supernatural entities, then the prevalence of belief must be explained. Lorkowski first discusses the scope of the problem, showing that the popularity of belief does not constitute an argument against atheist naturalism.
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Naturalism and Religion

Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 1949
between religion and science. But if by science is meant the particular discoveries of particular sciences such as geology, astronomy, biology; and if by religion we mean such essential matters as belief in, and worship of, God, and not, for example, belief in the cosmogony of Genesis; then we may say that the conflict between religion and science is ...
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