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at they are * separate from their bodies." Mind or soul? ,9 Such hypotheses seem to make intuitive sense. But critics such as Paul Harris of Har- vard University say that children learn about 3 the afterlife from others. Working in Spain CI E and Madagascar, Harris and colleagues did studies somewhat simila

d to the designs and desires of other people that we are hypersensitive to signs of "agents": thinking minds like ow own. In what anthro- pologist Pascal Boyer of Washington Univer- sity in St. Louis in Missouri has described as a "hypertrophy of social cognition;' we tend to attribute random events or nat

at they are * separate from their bodies." Mind or soul? ,9 Such hypotheses seem to make intuitive sense. But critics such as Paul Harris of Har- vard University say that children learn about 3 the afterlife from others. Working in Spain CI E and Madagascar, Harris and colleagues did studies somewhat simila

to the designs and desires of other people that we are hypersensitive to signs of - agents": thinking minds like ow own. In what anthro- pologist Pascal Boyer of Washington Univer- sity in St. Louis in Missouri has described as a "hypertrophy of social cognition,- we tend to attribute random events or na

are separate from their bodies." tl 6 2 0 Mind or soul? Such hypotheses seem to make intuitive sense. But critics such as Paul Harris of Har- vard University say that children learn about the afterlife from others. Working in Spain and Madagascar, Harris and colleagues did studies somewhat similar to Be

d to the designs and desires of other people that we arc hypersensitive to signs of "agents": thinking minds like ow own. In what anthro- pologist Pascal Boyer of Washington Univer- sity in St. Louis in Missouri has described as a "hypertrophy of social cognition:" we tend to attribute random events or nat

ress, 1993), 178. The most lucid and succinct historical treatment remains Frank E. Manuel, The Eighteenth Century Confronts the Gods (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1959). I have in mind such authors as John William Draper, History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (1874), and Andrew Dickson White

in which disbelief is such a real social option. References I Scholars who contribute to this perspective include Scott Atran, Justin Barrett, Pascal Boyer, Stewart Guthrie, and Harvey Whitehouse. 2 These churches have been described by Miller, D. 1997. Reinventing American Protestantism. Berkeley: U

ty Press, 1993), 178. The most lucid and succinct historical treatment remains Frank E. Manuel, 7he Fighteenth Century Confronts the Gods (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959). 'Thave in mind such authors as John William Draper, History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (1874), and Andrew Dickson White, A

orld in which disbelief is such a real social option. References ' Scholars who contribute to this perspective include Scott Atran, Justin Barrett, Pascal Boyer, Stewart Guthrie, and Harvey Whitehouse. * These churches have been described by Miller, D. 1997. Reinventing American Protestantism. Berkeley: Univ