Atheism is only skin deep
Geertz and Markusson rely mistakenly on sociodemographic data as meaningful indicators of underlying cognition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4838424 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jesse M Bering (0000-0002-1501-702X, Queen's University Belfast, corresponding author), Jesse Bering |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 166-168 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.religion.2009.11.001 |
| OpenAlex | W2014368526 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 7 |
Cognitive scientists of religion and evolutionary theorists alike have been increasingly arguing in recent\nyears that religion is "natural" in the sense of being motivated by core, evolved psychological intuitions.\nAtheism, and irreligion more generally, appear to pose problems for the naturalness hypothesis, especially\nconsidering the significant proportion of people in contemporary societies who reject supernatural\nbeliefs. Although Geertz and Markússon clarify why the naturalness hypothesis does not imply religious\ndeterminism, they fail to weigh adequately the more conservative prediction, that of religious probabilism.\nFurthermore, unlike cognitive scientific accounts favoring the naturalness hypothesis, the authors\nbase their arguments for the cultural scaffolding of atheistic cognition on sociodemographic data aloneda\nsource that is unlikely to be a meaningful reflection of "natural" underlying cognitive processes
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| Citations per year | 1.33 |
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| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |