How are non secular principles offered, obtained and transmitted? faced with non secular practices, anthropologists have often been content material with sociological generalizations, knowledgeable by way of obscure, intuitive versions of cognitive approaches. but the fashionable cognitive theories promise a clean knowing of the way non secular rules are learnt; and if a similar cognitive approaches may be proven to underlie all spiritual ideologies, then the comparative research of religions can be put on a unconditionally new footing. the current e-book is a contribution to this formidable programme. In heavily centred essays, a bunch of anthropologists debate the actual nature of spiritual innovations and different types, and start to specify the cognitive constraints on cultural acquisition and transmission.
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