Supernatural beliefs have featured in every society throughout history. New research helps explain why
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For thousands of years, humans have held religious beliefs and participated in religious rituals.
Key Points:
- For thousands of years, humans have held religious beliefs and participated in religious rituals.
- Throughout history, every human society has featured some kind of supernatural or religious belief.
- The world is a mysterious place, and was even more mysterious before the rise of modern science.
- Yet despite these specific examples, we know little about which kinds of phenomena people try to explain using religion.
- If religion helps us fill gaps in knowledge, what kind of gaps is it most likely to fill?
- We found societies are overwhelmingly more likely to have supernatural beliefs that concern “natural” phenomena, rather than “social” phenomena.
- For each society, we read through ethnographic texts and identified supernatural explanations that were commonly held across its people.