Why Santa Claus is not a God

Journal of Cognition and Culture

Volumn 8, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 149-161

  Barrett, Justin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Belief; Cognitive science; God concepts; Religion; Santa Claus

Indexed keywords

EID: 63849141437     PISSN: 15677095     EISSN: 15685373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156770908X289251     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Atran, S. (2002). In Gods We Trust: The evolutionary landscape of religion. Oxford University Press, Oxford R Oxford University Press, Oxford
2. Atran, S. and Norenzayan, A. (2004). Religion's Evolutionary Landscape Compassion, Communion Counterintuition, Commitment, Compassion, Communion. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27, 713-730
3. Barrett, J. L. (2000). Exploring the natural foundations of religion Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4, 29-34
4. - (2004). Why would anyone believe in God? AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek CA
5. - (2004). Counterfactuality in counterintuitive religious concepts Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27, 731-732
6. Barrett, J. L. and Nyhof, M. A. (2001). Spreading non-natural concepts structures in memory and transmission of cultural materials The role of intuitive conceptual structures in memory and transmission of cultural materials. Journal of Cognition and Culture 1, 69-100
7. Boyer. (1994). The Naturalness of Religious Ideas. A Cognitive Theory of Religion. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
8. - (2001). Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought. Basic Books, New York, NY
9. - (2003). Religious Thought and Behaviour as By-products of Brain Function. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7, 119-124
10. Boyer. and Ramble, C. (2001). Cognitive templates for religious recall of counter-intuitive representations concepts: Cross-cultural evidence for recall of counter-intuitive representations. Cognitive Science 25, 535-564
11. Keil, F. C. (1989). Concepts, kinds and conceptual development. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
12. McCauley, R. N. and Lawson, E. T. (2002). Bringing Ritual to Mind Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
13. Sperber, D.remack, D. and Premack, A. J. (Eds) (1995). Causal Oxford Cognition: A Multidisciplinary Debate. Oxford University Press, Oxford