Kind Goddessess: an Evolutionary Perspective on Personal Prayer as a Medium through which Representational Features Resembling the Primary Caregiver Are Spread

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Kind Goddessess: an Evolutionary Perspective on Personal Prayer as a Medium through which Representational Features Resembling the Primary Caregiver Are Spread

Original language description

This article deals with the popularity of female deities among Neo-Pagans. it is argued that the current opinion on this issue is insufficient to explain certain prevalent aspects of female deities widely shared among Neo-Pagans, therefore an additionalinsight from cognitive science is adopted. It is suggested that the fitness optimal mental representation of maternally loving woman can significantly bias the mental representation of the Goddess or goddesses being female, due to the essentiality of therepresentation of maternally loving woman in cultural selection. Additionally, it is also suggested that an improvised personal prayer or ritual is the environment that closely resembles attachment to a primary caregiver, therefore the convenient environment in which "kind" female deities are especially preferred. In the end, the results from the case study, testing the hypotheses concerning the preferred deities in personal contact among Czech Neo-Pagans are provided to illustrate the

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AA - Philosophy and religion

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Pantheon: Religionistický časopis

ISSN

1803-2443

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

47-55

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