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Functional Origins of Religious Concepts

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/bec/papers/boyer_religious_concepts.htm

Essay by cognitive anthropologist Pascal Boyer recounting theory and experimental evidence for the ontological and strategic selection of supernatural concepts.

Submitted in section: Psychology: Psychology and Religion: Functional Origins of Religious Concepts

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