Ebook: Born believers : the science of children’s religious belief
Author: Barrett Justin L.
- Genre: Religion
- Tags: Faith -- Psychology, God, Child psychology, Children -- Religious life, Psychology Religious, Glaube, Kind, Religiosität, Religiöse Entwicklung, Anfang, Kleinkind, Psychologie
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Free Press
- City: New York
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- epub
In this book the author, a developmental psychologist and anthropologist, presents a theory that we are predisposed to believe in God from birth. It all begins in the brain. Infants, under the sway of powerful internal and external forces, make sense of their environments by imagining a creative and intelligent agent, a grand controller who makes the sun shine and the night fall. In the chaos of childhood, where so Read more...