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cabate

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on: Aug 11, 2018
Which of the following would explain why certain aspects of religion appear to be universal?
 
  A. Common experiences of suffering have prompted people to develop similar explanatory beliefs.
  B. They are aspects that have offered the most rational explanations for natural phenomena.
  C. Religious beliefs are hardwired into our genetic system.
  D. The religious aspects that converge with human cognitive capacities have persisted over time.

Question 2

Which aspect of religion is especially interesting to cognitive anthropologists?
 
  A. the humanistic-interpretive aspects of particular religions
  B. the scientific-causal aspects of religion as a human universal
  C. the growing trends of secularism and fundamentalism
  D. the relationship between sacred myths and the symbolic and ritual aspects of religion


paavo

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Reply #1 on: Aug 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: D

Answer to Question 2

Answer: B


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