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Learning that there is life after death

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2006

Paul L. Harris and
Rita Astuti
Paul L. Harris*
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
Rita Astuti*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom
*
paul-harris@gse.harvard.edu
r.astuti@lse.ac.uk
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Abstract:

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Bering's argument that human beings are endowed with a cognitive system dedicated to forming illusory representations of psychological immortality relies on the claim that children's beliefs in the afterlife are not the result of religious teaching. We suggest four reasons why this claim is unsatisfactory.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 5 , October 2006, pp. 475 - 476
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006