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Examines the significance of animal environments in contemporary continental thought .
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Essays covering a wide range of subjects: spiritual symbolism, the afterlife, and more..
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Why do people have religious ideas? And why thosereligious ideas? The main theme of Pascal Boyer's work is that important aspects of religious representations are constrained by universal properties of the human mind-brain Experimental results from developmental psychology, he says, can explain why certain religious representations are more likely to be acquired, stored, and transmitted by human minds. Considering these universal constraints, Boyer proposes an exciting new answer to the question of why similar religious representations are found in so many different cultures. His work will be widely discussed by cultural anthropologists, psychologists, and students of religion, history, and philosophy..
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal for Nature Conservation, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The concept of naturalness both as a conservation value and as a descriptor of state is discussed. Previously used indexes or criteria for expressing naturalness are summarised, pointing out particular conservation activity fields where a structured index ought to be useful. Strongly focused on its practical application, a qualitative index for expressing naturalness of a given system is developed. The index ranks from a maximum of [10] to a minimum of [0] (artificial systems). Its ecological foundation (system analysis), diagnostic criteria and application procedures (mapping included) are explained. Finally, a set of three examples taken from different working scales is presented: an archipelago (Galapagos), an island (El Hierro) and a map sheet at scale 1:25000. The latter examples originated in the Canary Islands. The index has been tested on oceanic islands, but it can be applied to any environment. .
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This digital document is an article from The Review of Metaphysics, published by Philosophy Education Society, Inc. on December 1, 1995. The length of the article is 766 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion.
Author: Rem B. Edwards
Publication:The Review of Metaphysics (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1995
Publisher: Philosophy Education Society, Inc.
Volume: v49 Issue: n2 Page: p400(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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