Review: Ilkka Pyysiäinen, Supernatural Agents: Why We Believe in Souls, Gods, and Buddhas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 285 pp., $55.96 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-19- 538002-6.

Authors

  • Mark A. Cravalho Federal University of Bahia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v6i1.124

Keywords:

Ilkka Pyysiainen, supernatural, soul, God

References

Boyer, Pascal. 2001. Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought (New York: Basic Books).

Jensen, Jeppe Sinding. 2009. ‘Religion as the Unintended Product of Brain Functions in the “Standard Cognitive Science of Religion Model”: On Pascal Boyer, Religion Explained (2001) and Ilkka Pyysiäinen, How Religion Works (2003)’, in M. Stausberg (ed.), Contemporary Theories of Religion: A Critical Companion (New York: Routledge): 129-55.

Sperber, Dan. 1985. ‘Anthropology and Psychology: Towards an Epidemiology of Representations’, Man 20.1: 73-89.

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2012-04-11

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How to Cite

Cravalho, M. A. (2012). Review: Ilkka Pyysiäinen, Supernatural Agents: Why We Believe in Souls, Gods, and Buddhas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 285 pp., $55.96 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-19- 538002-6. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 6(1), 124-126. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v6i1.124