Why Santa Claus is not a god
Through the lenses of cognitive science of religion, successful god concepts must possess a number of features. God concepts must be (1) counterintuitive, (2) an intentional agent, (3) possessing strategic information, (4) able to act in the human world in detectable ways and (5) capable of motivati...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2008
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