Introduction: Is God a Notre Dame Football Fan? -- Religion Is for Dummies and Romantics -- Religion Is What Your Parents Say -- Religion Is Perfectly Natural, Not Naturally Perfect -- Buddha Nature -- W.D.G.D.? (What Does God Do?) -- I'd Rather Be Lucky Than Good -- Conclusion: Religion Rethought
Summary
Human minds are great at coming up with ideas that help them make sense of the world, but those ideas do not always accord with official religious beliefs. Slone presents discoveries from the cognitive science of religion and shows how they help us to understand exactly why it is that religious people do and think things that they shouldn't
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-151) and index