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100 1  Barrett, Justin L.,|d1971- 
245 10 Born believers :|bthe science of children's religious 
       belief /|cJustin L. Barrett. 
250    First Free Press hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bFree Press,|c2012. 
300    x, 302 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Secret agents everywhere -- Children in search of a 
       purpose -- Identifying the Maker -- The mind of God -- The
       nature of God -- Natural religion -- It's OK to be 
       childish -- So stupid they'll believe anything? -- Is 
       atheism unnatural? -- Should you introduce children to 
       God? -- Encouraging children's religious development. 
520    In this book the aithor, a developmental psychologist and 
       anthropologist presents a theory that we are predisposed 
       to believe in God from birth. It all begins in the brain. 
       Infants, under the sway of powerful internal and external 
       forces, make sense of their environments by imagining a 
       creative and intelligent agent, a grand controller who 
       makes the sun shine and the night fall. In the chaos of 
       childhood, where so much is out of the child's control, 
       this belief in a morally good creator can bring tremendous
       comfort and calm. A child's world is then filled with 
       beings who intentionally act upon the environment, 
       maintaining order. Summarizing scientific experiments 
       conducted with children across the globe, the author 
       illustrates the ways human beings have come to develop 
       complex belief systems about God's omniscience, the 
       afterlife, and the immortality of deities, and shows how 
       this underlies all of the major world religions, uniting 
       them under one common source. 
650  0 Faith|xPsychology. 
650  0 God. 
650  0 Child psychology. 
650  0 Children|xReligious life. 
650  0 Psychology, Religious. 
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