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Jun 25, 2019 · Worship of the Supernatural. It would be rare for a religion to promote mere belief in the supernatural—worship of the supernatural is almost always called for. One of the attributes of God in traditional theism is a being that is “ worthy of worship.”. Worship may take the form of ritual sacrifices, prayer, consultation, or simple ...
Mar 28, 2022 · The Concept of Religion. It is common today to take the concept religion as a taxon for sets of social practices, a category-concept whose paradigmatic examples are the so-called “world” religions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism. [1] Perhaps equally paradigmatic, though somewhat trickier to ...
Dec 15, 2015 · Craig Cloutier/Flickr. Human beings are remarkably prone to supernatural beliefs and, in particular, to beliefs in invisible agents – beings that, like us, act on the basis of their beliefs and desires, but that, unlike us, aren’t usually visible to the naked eye. Belief in the existence of such person-like entities is ubiquitous.
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Aug 23, 2020 · The links between the study of religion as a natural phenomenon in the history of philosophy and current work in cognitive science, anthropology, experimental psychology and evolution theory (to name a few domains of enquiry) stands in need of more research, and we believe it is a fruitful domain of investigation.
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Oct 5, 2015 · This tendency to explain the natural world through the existence of beings with supernatural powers — things like gods, ancestral spirits, goblins and fairies — formed the basis for religious ...
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Jun 25, 2019 · Mircea Eliade - Religion Is a Focus on the Sacred. The key to Mircea Eliade’s understanding of religion is two concepts: the sacred and the profane. Eliade says religion is primarily about belief in the supernatural, which for him lies at the heart of the sacred. He does not try to explain away religion and rejects all reductionist efforts.
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Jan 17, 2017 · Hume’s Natural History of Religion (1757) is perhaps the best-known philosophical example of a natural historical explanation of religious belief. It traces the origins of polytheism—which Hume thought was the earliest form of religious belief—to ignorance about natural causes combined with fear and apprehension about the environment.
