Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World, by Clay Routledge.

Authors

  • Siria Kohonen University of Helsinki

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.18788

Keywords:

afterlife, death, supernatural thinking

Abstract

Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World, by Clay Routledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 216pp., $29.95, ISBN 9780190629427

References

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Lindeman, M., Heywood, B., Riekki, T., & Makkonen, T. (2014). Atheists become emotionally aroused when daring god to do terrible things. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 24, 124–132. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2013.771991

McCauley, R. N. (2011). Why religion is natural and science is not. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Routledge, C. (2016). Beyond religion: Finding meaning in nontraditional magical beliefs. Paper presented at the annual American Psychological Society Conference at Chicago, IL.

Routledge, C., Abeyta, A. A., & Roylance, C. (2017). We are not alone: The meaning motive, religiosity, and belief in extraterrestrial intelligence. Motivation and Emotion, 41, 135–146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-017-9605-y

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Published

2021-08-03

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Book Reviews/Review Essays

How to Cite

Kohonen, S. (2021). Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World, by Clay Routledge. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 7(1), 119–122. https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.18788