The naturalness of religious ideas a cognitive theory of religion - Boyer, Pascal (University of California Press, 1994)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-313) and index
pt. 1. Religious ideas as conceptual structures -- Recurrence, naturalness, and under-determination -- The varieties of religious representations -- Two aspects of conceptual structures -- pt. 2. Four repertoires of religious representations -- Natural ontologies and supernatural furniture -- Causal judgments -- Essentialism and social categories -- Ritual episodes and religious assumptions -- pt. 3. A sketch of cultural transmission -- Cross-strengthening, religious truth, and stability -- Cultural transmission and the biology in history