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Atheism is only skin deep: Geertz and Markússon rely mistakenly on sociodemographic data as meaningful indicators of underlying cognition
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Cognitive scientists of religion and evolutionary theorists alike have been increasingly arguing in recent years that religion is "natural" in the sense of being motivated by core, evolved psychological intuitions. Atheism, and irreligion more generally, appear to pose problems for the naturalness hypothesis, especially considering the significant proportion of people in contemporary societies who reject supernatural beliefs. Although Geertz and Markússon clarify why the naturalness hypothesi...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Religion Journal website
- Volume:
- 40
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 166-168
- Publication date:
- 2010-07-01
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- ISSN:
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0048-721X
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- English
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- ora:4526
- Deposit date:
- 2010-12-01
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- Copyright date:
- 2009
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- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Bering, J. (2010). 'Atheism is only skin deep: Geertz and Markússon rely mistakenly on sociodemographic data as meaningful indicators of underlying cognition', Religion 40(3), 166-168. [Available at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622940/description#description].
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