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Pascal Boyer

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Pascal Robert Boyer is an American anthropologist of French origin, mostly known for his work in the cognitive science of religion. He taught at the University of Cambridge for eight years, before taking up the position of Henry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective Memory at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches classes on psychology and anthropology. He was a Guggenheim Fellow and a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Lyon, France. He studied philosophy and anthropology at University of Paris and Cambridge, with Jack Goody, working on memory constraints on the transmission of oral literature

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	Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought 3.99 avg rating — 2,416 ratings — published 2001 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create 3.91 avg rating — 380 ratings — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memory in Mind and Culture by Pascal Boyer (Editor), James V. Wertsch (Editor) 3.65 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tradition as Truth and Communication: A Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 68) 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cognitive Aspects of Religious Symbolism really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fracture of an Illusion: Science and the Dissolution of Religion. Frankfurt Templeton Lectures 2008 (Religion, Theologie Und Naturwissenschaft / Religion, Theology, and Natural Science (Rthn), 20) by Pascal Boyer, Wolfgang Achtner, Elisabeth Graeb-Schmidt it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens: Essays in Evolutionary Cognitive Anthropology really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Barricades mystérieuses et pièges à pensée - introduction à l'analyse des épopées fang 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La religion comme phénomène naturel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What we mean when we say that something is "cultural" is that it is roughly similar to what we find in other members of the particular group we are considering, and unlike what we would find in members of a contrast group. This is why it is confusing to say that people share a culture, as if culture were common property. We may have strictly identical amounts of money in our respective wallets without sharing any of it!”
― Pascal Boyer, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

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“[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a political one.”
― Pascal Boyer, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

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“If religion allays anxiety, it cures only a small part of the disease it creates.”
― Pascal Boyer, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

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