Supernatural Agents - Pyysiainen, Iikka (Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Academy of Finland and Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)

The cognitive science of religion is a rapidly growing field whose practitioners apply insights from advances in cognitive science in order to provide a better understanding of religious impulses, beliefs, and behaviors. In this book Ilkka Pyysiäinen shows how this methodology can profitably be used in the comparative study of beliefs about superhuman agents.