How Religion Works: Towards a New Cognitive Science of Religion

Ilkka Pyysiäinen

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This book presents a detailed argument to support the view that religion as a cultural practice cannot be properly explained without knowledge of the evolved cognitive mechanisms by which humans process information. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

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