Abstract：
:Although most people are religious, there are hundreds of millions of religious disbelievers in the world. What is religious disbelief and how does it arise? Recent developments in the scientific study of religious beliefs and behaviors point to the conclusion that religious disbelief arises from multiple interacting pathways, traceable to cognitive, motivational, and cultural learning mechanisms. We identify four such pathways, leading to four distinct forms of atheism, which we term mindblind atheism, apatheism, inCREDulous atheism, and analytic atheism. Religious belief and disbelief share the same underlying pathways and can be explained within a single evolutionary framework that is grounded in both genetic and cultural evolution.
journal_name
Trends Cogn Scijournal_title
Trends in cognitive sciencesauthors
Norenzayan A,Gervais WMdoi
10.1016/j.tics.2012.11.006subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-01-01 00:00:00pages
20-5issue
1eissn
1364-6613issn
1879-307Xpii
S1364-6613(12)00267-7journal_volume
17pub_type
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