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Imagining the impossible : magical, scientific, and religious thinking in children / edited by Karl S. Rosengren, Carl N. Johnson, Paul L. Harris.

Contributor(s): Rosengren, Karl Sven | Johnson, Carl N | Harris, Paul L
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000Description: xx, 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521665876 (pbk.); 0521593220Subject(s): Cognition in children | Magical thinking in children | Children -- Religious life | Reasoning in childrenDDC classification: 153.4/083 LOC classification: BF723.C5 | I44 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
The makings of the magical mind: the nature and function of sympathetic magical thinking / Carol Nemeroff and Paul Rozin -- Phenomenalistic perception and rational understanding in the mind of an individual: a fight for dominance / Eugene Subbotsky -- Metamorphosis and magic: the development of children's thinking about possible events and plausible mechanisms / Karl S. Rosengren and Anne K. Hickling -- The development of beliefs about direct mental-physical causality in imagination, magic, and religion / Jacqueline D. Woolley -- Intuitive ontology and cultural input in the acquisition of religious concepts / Pascal Boyer and Sheila Walker -- On not falling down to Earth: children's metaphysical questions / Paul L. Harris -- Putting different things together: the development of metaphysical thinking / Carl N. Johnson -- Versions of personal storytelling/versions of experience: genres as tools for creating alternate realities / Peggy J. Miller ... [et al.] -- The influence of religious beliefs on parental attitudes about children's fantasy behavior / Marjorie Taylor and Stephanie M. Carlson -- Religion, culture, and beliefs about reality in moral reasoning / Elliot Turiel and Kristin Neff -- Beyond Scopes: why creationism is here to stay / E. Margaret Evans -- Knowledge change in response to data in science, religion, and magic / Clark A. Chinn and William F. Brewer -- Theology and physical science: a story of developmental influence at the boundaries / David E. Schrader.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The makings of the magical mind: the nature and function of sympathetic magical thinking / Carol Nemeroff and Paul Rozin -- Phenomenalistic perception and rational understanding in the mind of an individual: a fight for dominance / Eugene Subbotsky -- Metamorphosis and magic: the development of children's thinking about possible events and plausible mechanisms / Karl S. Rosengren and Anne K. Hickling -- The development of beliefs about direct mental-physical causality in imagination, magic, and religion / Jacqueline D. Woolley -- Intuitive ontology and cultural input in the acquisition of religious concepts / Pascal Boyer and Sheila Walker -- On not falling down to Earth: children's metaphysical questions / Paul L. Harris -- Putting different things together: the development of metaphysical thinking / Carl N. Johnson -- Versions of personal storytelling/versions of experience: genres as tools for creating alternate realities / Peggy J. Miller ... [et al.] -- The influence of religious beliefs on parental attitudes about children's fantasy behavior / Marjorie Taylor and Stephanie M. Carlson -- Religion, culture, and beliefs about reality in moral reasoning / Elliot Turiel and Kristin Neff -- Beyond Scopes: why creationism is here to stay / E. Margaret Evans -- Knowledge change in response to data in science, religion, and magic / Clark A. Chinn and William F. Brewer -- Theology and physical science: a story of developmental influence at the boundaries / David E. Schrader.

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