McCauley Honorary | Pascal Boyer "What kinds of religion are “natural”?"

Pascal Boyer | Psychology & Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis "What kinds of religion are “natural”?" McCauley emphasized that religious representations are “natural”, in contrast to other cultural systems that require systematic training or leaning and institutional scaffolding. Pursuing this line of reasoning, we can see how some limited domains of religion are far more natural than others, in McCauley’s sense of that term. This could lead to a re-evaluation of some common tenets of the cognitive science of religion, propositions that we assume to apply to all forms of religious representations. 00:00 36:40 - Q&A NOTE: The views and opinions expressed by the speaker do not necessarily reflect those held by the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture or Emory University.