Humans Are Religious By Nature, Says Study
source: http://www.cam.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/CAM/Anthropology_CRT_FAQs.pdf
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The overarching goal of the project is to support scientific research that promises to yield new evidence regarding how the structures of human minds inform and constrain religious expression. The project will conduct research on the cognitive underpinnings of religious concepts and practices – for example, ideas about gods and spirits, the afterlife, spirit possession, prayer, ritual, religious expertise, and connections between religious thought and morality and pro-social behavior. Research is not limited to any particular religious belief or tradition. Indeed, much scholarship in this area is concerned to explain broad patterns of recurrence and variation in religious concepts and practices across diverse cultural and ecological contexts, and throughout history and pre-history. The project forms part of a broader field of interdisciplinary scholarship on the cognitive foundations of cultural expression more generally
Study Paper: http://www.cam.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/CAM/Anthropology_CRT_FAQs.pdf
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Stoneyroad
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(i call bullshit)
"Study Says" ?
this link is about what the study hopes to do
" Over the three years (2007-2010) "
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i found another story with same headline about this study
http://www.care2.com/causes/humans-are-religious-by-natur.html
but they too link to a 4 year old statement of what the study WILL be about.They then site Studies, (related?) with keen insights like this
"Children were asked whether their mother would know the contents of a box in which she could not see. Children aged three believed that their mother and God would always know the contents, but by the age of four, children start to understand that their mothers are not all-seeing and all knowing. However, children may continue to believe in all-seeing, all-knowing supernatural agents, such as a god or gods." - 11 months ago
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