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

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

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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

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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

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