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	Malinowski Lecture
		Concepts that are stable in one group and recurrent between groups are concepts that were selected in the transmission process, against a whole variety of variants that were forgotten, discarded and modified.
		Religious concepts, it is argued, came from a need to understand various natural phenomena, from an urge to comprehend puzzling mental events like dreams, from the need to keep society cohesive, from a desire to make the world more human-like, from anxiety triggered by our mortality, from childhood concepts or from people’s superstitious proclivities.
		Religious concepts are not around because they are good for people or for society or because of an inherent need or desire to have them.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /anthro/bec/papers/boyer_religious_concepts.htm (10069 words)

	Religious concepts - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Religious concepts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Other related studies are the psychology of religion, which examines human states of mind under religious influence – for example, ecstasy, diabolic possession, and faith healing – and the possible causes of these states; and the philosophy of religion, which coincides to a large extent with natural theology.
		Religion may originate in pondering the unknown; in the need to explain phenomena that are not understood; in awe of natural forces; in a psychological need for outside support; in dreams and visions; or in the veneration of ancestors or clan totems.
		Religious belief has generally been encouraged by rulers and governments because people are more likely to obey rules that have the force of supernatural authority behind them.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Religious+concepts (486 words)

	Why Is Religion Natural? (Skeptical Inquirer Mar 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Religious beliefs and practices are found in all human groups and go back to the very beginnings of human culture.
		Religious concepts are both cheap and sensational; they are easy to understand and rather exciting to entertain.
		First, religious concepts would not be salient if they did not violate some of our most entrenched intuitions (e.g., that agents have a position in space, that live beings grow old and die, etc.).
	www.csicop.org /si/2004-03/religion.html (4460 words)

	TOWARD BETTER CONCEPTS OF PEACE
		It is concepts of peace such as "peace is not war" or "not conflict" that I accuse of failure.
		Western concepts of peace originate in 1) the Ancient Judaism concept of shalom, 2) the Greek concept of eirene, and 3) the Roman concept of pax.
		A concept of peace that belongs in neither paradigm is peace is death.
	www.colorado.edu /conflict/full_text_search/PeacePapers/89-14.htm (8020 words)

	Anthropology of Religion
		At the same time, he argues that the variety of human religious concepts is not infinite, suggesting an underlying pattern in the way certain kinds of religious concepts engage the mind by "successful activation of a whole variety of mental systems." These patterns increase the probability that such concepts will be remembered and transmitted.
		Religious concepts and norms and the emotions attached to them seem designed to excite the human mind, linger in memory, trigger multiple inferences in the precise way that will get people to hold them true and communicate them.
		Religious concepts work that way, they realize the miracle of being exactly what people will transmit, simply because other variants were created and forgotten or abandoned all along.
	www.wordtrade.com /society/anthropologyreligion.htm (1954 words)

	Untitled Document
		Now supernatural concepts describe minimal violations of such expectations: a tree is said to listen to people's conversations, a statue is said to bleed on particular occasions, a person is described as being in several places at once, another one as going through walls, etc. Note that such concepts violate domain-level and not kind-level expectations.
		Concepts that are both salient (because of the violation) and very cheaply transmitted (because of spontaneous inferences) are optimal from the viewpoint of cultural transmission.
		It seems likely that the folk-scientific concept of 'gene,' for instance, would be closely linked to human concepts of agency'thus many people believe that genes are hidden inner agents with their own agendas that influence our motives and feelings (and scientists like Richard Dawkins are to blame for this highly distorted conception).
	www.srhe.ucsb.edu /lectures/text/boyerText.html (10622 words)

	Purity and pollution in relation to religious concepts (from purification rite) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Concepts of purity and pollution > Purity and pollution in relation to religious concepts
		Concepts of purity and pollution may tend to merge with several concepts of religion: the sacred, sin, and the forces of evil.
		A typical instance of the use of concept is in The Concept of Mind (1949) by Gilbert Ryle, an Oxford...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-66373?tocId=66373 (881 words)

	Material Culture of Religion: Religious terms, concepts, people, etc.
		New Age: One of the seven invisible doctors of the Central Spiritual Resurrection religious sect, this spectral being specialized in affairs of the heart.
		New Age: This religious sect was officially recognized in Iceland in 1973 as a means of restoring the ancient rituals of pre-Christian Iceland.
		Religious tradition founded in 19th Century Iran by the Bab, Baha'u'llah and Abdu'l-Baha, who formerly were adherents of Shi'a Islam.
	home.att.net /~spmckee/glossary_second.html (13500 words)

	purgatory.unfix.org - Hell
		Later the dictum of the prophet Isaiah that the king of Babylon shall be "brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the Pit" (14:15) gave rise to the concept of various depths of Sheol, with corresponding degrees of reward and punishment.
		Opinions range from holding the pains of hell to be no more than the remorse of conscience to the traditional belief that the "pain of loss" (the consciousness of having forfeited the vision of God and the happiness of heaven) is combined with the "pain of sense" (actual physical torment).
		In China, this Buddhist belief fused with native religious concepts of the abode of the Chinese deities and Daoist immortals, giving the dead an even greater variety of potential "destines".
	purgatory.unfix.org /encyclopedia/hell.html (1114 words)

	Western Concepts of God [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Concepts of God in philosophy are entwined with concepts of God in religion.
		Revelation can be linked to religious experience or a type of it, both for the person originally receiving it and the one merely accepting it as authoritative.
		Augustine defends the orthodox Christian concept of God on grounds that he did what was good in creating free beings yet they used their freedom to do evil.
	www.iep.utm.edu /g/god-west.htm (8846 words)

	Amazon.com: Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This book sees religious doctrine, dogma, and institutions as secondary to religion's primary role in social interactions, dealing with death and the disposal of dead bodies, and providing explanations for misfortune or other impersonal events for which causal or purposeful explanations may not be available.
		Like our other concepts, religious ones are often vague and their use idiosyncratic due to the fact that they result from the unconscious functioning of inference engines.
		Thus religious concepts and behaviour are present not because they are necessary or even useful, but because they easily activate our templates, are easy to remember and transmit and so they survive over time.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465006965?v=glance (7150 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Religious beings frequently are intangible and immaterial, or at least rarely encountered directly, and yet rich concepts of these beings arise and spread.
		Considerations of religious ritual form contribute fundamentally to the explanation of, among other things, (1) why participants perform some rituals time and time again while performing others only once and (2) why some rituals include high levels of sensory pageantry while others are routine, boring, and dull.
		A comparative-inferential approach to religious origins is possible to the extent that the cognitive mechanisms underlying (but not unique to) religious thought in humans are identified and then empirically assessed in other species.
	www.icc.isr.umich.edu /MindsandGodsprog.doc (4526 words)

	Aquarian Concepts Community & Religious Order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		All members of the divine administration and religious order are candidates to become destiny reservists who have a calling from God to use their talents and abilities to help solve the many global issues in a full-time ministry situation and bring continued revelation into the Aquarian millennium.
		Aquarian Concepts Community Religious Order is a group of individuals who operate under the federal guidelines of a religious order and vow to live under a strict set of rules requiring moral and spiritual self-sacrifice and dedication to the goals of the order.
		They are under the supervision of Aquarian Concepts Community Church and live together as a community under stricter moral and religious discipline than lay members of the church.
	www.aquarianconceptscommunity.org /community.html (446 words)

	Abstract - Naive Causality
		The world over, these concepts include violations of conceptual expectations at the level of domain knowledge (e.g., about ‘animal’ or ‘artifact’ or ‘person’) rather than at the basic level.
		These studies used material constructed in the same way as religious concepts, but not used in religions familiar to the subjects.
		Overall sensitivity to violations is similar in different cultures and produces similar recall effects, despite differences in commitment to religious belief, in the range of local religious concepts of in their mode of transmission.
	www.cognitivesciencesociety.org /abstract/01boyer.html (229 words)

	Religious concepts (from Great Basin Indian) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Religious concepts derived from a mythical cosmogony, beliefs in power beings, and a belief in a dualistic soul.
		Instances of religious syncretism—as, for example, Gnosticism (a religious dualistic system that incorporated elements from the Oriental mystery religions), Judaism, Christianity, and Greek religious philosophical concepts—were particularly prevalent during the Hellenistic period (c.
		powerful religious revival in the North American colonies from the 1720s to the 1740s; leaders included George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, and William and Gilbert Tennent; the revival caused serious divisions in several denominations; missions to American Indians were established; consequences included founding of such colleges as Brown, Rutgers, Princeton, and...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-57681?tocId=57681 (825 words)

	Influences from nature (from religious symbolism and iconography) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The main streams of the influence from nature are derived from man's experience of nature itself, his position in the universe, and his attempt to master his world in religious terms.
		Schooling in religion means teaching religious subject matter, as children in American Sunday schools are taught Bible stories and other lessons.
		"Extensive dictionary of religious terms, with a bibliography and articles on the use of religious and secular terms in essays, the confusing nature of the definitions of some terms, and the somewhat differing use of religious terms by fundametalist organizations.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-28985 (993 words)

	Western Concepts of God [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Western concepts of God have ranged from the detached transcendent demiurge of Aristotle to the pantheism of Spinoza.
		Issues related to Western concepts of God include the nature of divine attributes and how they can be known, if or how that knowledge can be communicated, the relation between such knowledge and logic, the nature of divine causality, and the relation between the divine and the human will.
		Though a Muslim and an Aristotelian, Averroes (Ibn Rushd; 1126-1198) added to the growing concept of emanation by claiming that the universal mind is an emanation from God.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/g/god-west.htm (8846 words)

	Pascal R. Boyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		More generally, the aim of all this is to show how human brains, by virtue of their evolutionary history, share certain conceptual dispositions which in turn make certain kinds of cultural concepts particularly easy to learn and transmit, and therefore very frequent in otherwise diverse human cultures.
		My most recent work bears on the early development of concepts of agency and personhood (what makes persons and animals different from inert objects) and on early mathematical concepts, as well as on the specifically human neural structures that support such competencies.
		A general explanatory framework for religious concepts, norms and emotions was presented in "Religion Explained." This account is based on experimental results in cognition, cross-cultural comparisons and an evaluation of evolutionary pressure on social relations.
	mednews.wustl.edu /sb/page/normal/140.html (606 words)

	Understanding Other Religions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is encouraging to read in the Public Forum the intelligent discussions of religious concepts generated by LDS Apostle Boyd Packer's address on the question "Is Mormonism Christian?" Public discussion of differing religious beliefs has been historically discouraged for a variety of reasons.
		We need enlightened public disclosure of the various religious beliefs concerning the nature of God, Satan, sin, salvation, redemption, heaven, hell, the purpose of life and death.
		Public and private religious discussions need not degenerate into proselytizing debates of who's right and who's wrong but can be conducted in a knowledge-seeking atmosphere.
	www.humanistsofutah.org /1998/bb2apr98.html (286 words)

	Religous Concepts in China
		In religious usage it means 'human conduct', 'truth' or 'morality'; on a cosmic level it signifies the principle which creates and guides the universe.
		There were Buddhist and Daoist monks and nuns who did make such a commitment of course, and periods of religious persecution, but still nothing to compare with the bloody European wars of religion nor the burning of heretics and witches.
		Chinese religious terminology was already so rich that it was tempting to use an existing terms (dao, for 'God', for instance) with all the risks of misunderstanding that might arise perhaps even the absorption of the new religion into the indigenous systems of belief.
	www.sacu.org /religion2.html (1267 words)

	Pascal Boyer: Proximate Cognitive Explanations of Religious Concepts
		Evolutionary Psychology and Proximate Cognitive Explanations of Religious Concepts
		Cultural transmission, like other forms of human communication, does not consist in a ‘downloading’ of concepts from one mind to another.
		A first selection stems from the fact that human minds are equipped with a particular ontology, a set of intuitive expectations about the kinds of things to be found in the world.
	www.anth.ucsb.edu /projects/esm/IAM/PBoyer.html (635 words)

	heaven, purgatory: religious concepts revisited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This doctrine teaches that all souls stained by sins against God must first be purged or purified of those sins before the soul can enter Heaven.
		In regards to the place or condition, duration, or what kind of punishment, the Catholic Church is not adding any insight or suggestions.
		The fact is, whether it is the purgatory or an astral plane we are talking about, the concept more likely refers to a condition than a place.
	www.self-realization.com /articles/religious_concepts.htm (554 words)

	The Origins of Harn's Religious Concepts
		We would then have to explain how and why such religious ideas have been able to get a foothold in NW Lythia and how they managed to spread among the NW Lythian religions.
		Maybe ideas of this kind influenced the religions who seems to have originated in the easternmost areas of NW Lythia (the eastern parts of the Venarian Sea) Halea and Naveh; but on the other hand neither of these religions seems to have any of the ideas I'm interested in.
		All of these possible sources of influence on NW Lythian religions have of course their part in explaining how 'unnatural' ideas have come to be used in the Harnic religions.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /harn-religion-team/general/origin_concepts.html (1259 words)

	Introductory Concepts in Religious Studies
		One of the best reasons is that the consideration of the experience of another has a reflexive character to it-- by studying something different, we learn something new about that which is familiar to us.
		A symbol, too, may have a direct (discursive) relationship with a person, place or thing, but it differs from a sign in that its referent does not have to be present in order for the symbol to have meaning.
		What is the difference between the concepts of "sign" and "symbol?" Give an example of each and explain how it applies to the definition.
	staff.jccc.net /thoare/relintro.htm (1472 words)

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