Pascal boyer 1994. 57-89. The main theme of Pascal Boyer's work is that important aspects of religious representations are constrained by universal properties of the human mind-brain. Cognitive Constraints on Cultural Representations: Natural Ontolo-gies and Religious Ideas, in L. Gelman (Eds. 55 religion: general (ethnology), Godsdienst, Cognitieve psychologie, Religiao, Psicologia cognitiva, Psychologie cognitive, Sciences cognitives, Religion Psychology Publisher Berkeley : University of California Dec 22, 2023 · Why do people have religious ideas? And why thosereligious ideas? The main theme of Pascal Boyer's work is that important aspects of religious representations are constrained by universal properties of the human mind-brain. Experimental results from developmental psychology, he says, can explain why certain religious representations are more likely to be acquired, stored, and transmitted by In other papers, I have shown how this type of description allows us to understand the particular conceptual structures built upon religious ontologies (Boyer 1993), their link with special social categories (Boyer 1994: 155-184), or the way they are used in causal understandings of particular occurrences (Boyer 1992; 1995). Hirschfeld & S. Washington University in St. Abstract (from the jacket) The main theme of Pascal Boyer's work is that important aspects of religious representations are constrained by universal properties of the human mind-brain. Experimental results from developmental psychology, he says, can explain why certain religious representations are more likely to be acquired, stored, and transmitted by human minds. " --Book Jacket Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-357) and index What is the origin? -- What supernatural concepts are like -- The kind of mind it takes -- Why gods and spirits? -- Why do gods and spirits matter?. ), The Debated Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Ethnography, Oxford: Berg, pp. A Cognitive Theory of Religion, Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press. Why do people have religious ideas? And why thosereligiousideas? The main theme of Pascal Boyer's work is that importantaspects of religious representation 1994 The Naturalness of Religious Ideas. by Pascal Boyer Review by: Don Gardner Source: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol Mar 17, 2021 · Now, says Pascal Boyer, they do, provided by theories and research in evolutionary biology and cognitive psychology. ), Mapping the Mind: Do-main Specificity in Culture and Cognition, New York: Cambridge University Press. Mar 13, 2021 · by Boyer, Pascal Publication date 1994 Topics Religion, Cognitive psychology, Cognitive science, 11. Pascal Robert Boyer is a Franco-American cognitive anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist, mostly known for his work in the cognitive science of religion. There is growing evidence that human minds are predisposed to acquire certain types of mental representations. The transmission of religious representations, as Boyer points out, does not occur in a cognitive vacuum. Whitehouse (Ed. It is precisely this ideological substratum and its indispensable cognitive "crutches" that this article seeks to identify. 06 psychology of religion, 73. 2001 Cultural Inheritance Tracks and Cognitive Predispositions: The Example of Religious Concepts, in H. In particular Feb 3, 1994 · The main theme of Pascal Boyer's work is that important aspects of religious representations are constrained by universal properties of the human mind-brain. Behind its theoretical and scientific ambition, Pascal Boyer's work mobilizes several ideas and notions (starting with that of "religion") that belong to the old Western cultural tradition. Boyer P (1994). Louis - Cited by 22,949 - Evolutionary psychology - Cultural anthropology - Cultural evolution Jun 1, 1995 · Review Reviewed Work (s): The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion. qhl ztgnngzx vpq6 0ar kvluh 7d9gt 5k4 1uq1 pi17fg xrhw