Born Believers The Science of Children's Religious Belief

Name: Born Believers The Science of Children's Religious Belief
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ISBN: 9781439196540

ISBN-10: 1439196540

ISBN-13: 9781439196540

Edition: 2012

Authors: Justin L. Barrett

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From a noted developmental psychologist and anthropologist at Oxford University, this fascinating theory about the value of religious faith finds that we are all predisposed to believe in God from birth.We are all Born Believers, explains Oxford University’s Professor Justin L. Barrett in this enlightening and provocative book on how human beings, across every culture, instinctively develop a belief in a divine power.It all begins in the brain. Infants, under the sway of powerful internal and external forces, make sense of their environments by imagining a creative and intelligent agent, a grand controller who makes the sun shine and the night fall. In the chaos of childhood, where so much…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 3/20/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.056