The ritual animal speaks again: a scientific study

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Notes

1 Unreferenced page numbers refer to Whitehouse, 2021.

2 The cognitive sciences, of course, emerged during the mid-twentieth century (Gardner, 1985). A proposal for a cognitive science of religion was made a decade earlier by anthropologist Stewart Guthrie (Guthrie, 1980). However, Lawson and McCauley were the first scholars of religion to theorize religion from that perspective.

3 Seshat is the “ancient Egyptian goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and writing” (p. 113).