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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
ng animations of circles, triangles, and squares darting about could identify various shapes as char- acters and infer a narrative. Anthropologist Stewart Guthrie noted in 1993 that this ten- dency could help explain religion, because it implies we attribute "agency" to all kinds of inanimate objects and amb
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
ng animations of circles, triangles, and squares darting about could identify various shapes as char- acters and infer a narrative. Anthropologist Stewart Guthrie noted in 1993 that this ten- dency could help explain religion, because it implies we attribute "agency" to all kinds of inanimate objects and amb
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
ng animations of circles, triangles, and squares darting about could identify various shapes as char- acters and infer a narrative. Anthropologist Stewart Guthrie noted in 1993 that this ten- dency could help explain religion, because it implies we attribute "agency" to all kinds of inanimate objects and amb
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
belief 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: University of Cal
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
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: University of Califor
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