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Explaining Religion: The Nature of Religious Thought – Boyer Pascal – Alpina Publisher – 2018 – ISBN 978-5-91671-868-3

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Why do we believe in a higher power? How is religion born and why does faith play a huge role in human life in the twenty-first century?
Anthropologist Pascal Boyer describes the propensity to believe from the perspective of evolutionary psychology. He finds the basis of beliefs and religious rituals in the principles of the human psyche: religious thinking is the most convenient, natural form of thinking for humans, a consequence of the adaptation of our psyche to the environment. There are many places in Europe where people believe in witches, some Muslims are afraid of jinns and ifrites, although official Islam does not recognize such creatures, and in the United States, despite the diversity of denominations, many people seriously interact with aliens. Why does this happen? Because it's very easy for our brains to believe in the supernatural and very difficult to be critical of this tendency to believe.

Because it's very easy for our brains to believe in the supernatural and very difficult to be critical of this tendency to believe.

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