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Abstract: The attribution of human characteristics to non-human things and events. Anthropomorphism pervades human perceptions and conceptions of the world, and appears central to religion. It results from our need to interpret an uncertain world and from our evolved and involuntary strategy of doing so first with the models that matter most, those of humans. ⸙
Title:
Anthropomorphism
Author:
Stewart Guthrie
Vocabulary for the Study of Religion Online
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004249707_vsr_COM_00000204
Language:
English
First-online:
06 Jan 2016
Last-update:
16 Sep 2014
Online ISSN:
9789004249707
Publisher:
Brill

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