PT Journal
AU Lawson, TE
TI How to Create a Religion
SO e-rhizome
PY 2019
BP 132
EP 137
VL 1
IS 2
DI 10.5507/rh.2019.007
DE conceptual scheme; cognitive science of religion; action representation; counter-intuitive agent; ritual
AB The aim of this paper is to suggest that it is worthwhile seeing what the various studies in the cognitive science of religion have taught us by engaging in a thought experiment in which we ask: "What would it take to create a religion on the basis of what we think that we now know about religiosity?" It will be an exercise in applied science by following a set of instructions.
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