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What Causes Religion and Superstitions?Human Truth Foundation pages (38):
Why Are There So Many Religious People? Parents, Local Culture and Inertia, in the following sections:
Religion as the Result of Human Mythmaking, in the following sections:
The Causes of Religion: National Under-Development and Poor Social Stability, in the following sections:
Social Identity as a Propagator of Religion, in the following sections:
Why do People Join New Religious Movements?, in the following sections:
Some People Become Religious to Aid Motivation to Reform Their Behaviour, in the following sections:
Simple Answers in a Complex and Uncertain World: What Causes Religion?, in the following sections:
Shamanism, in the following sections:
Counter-Cultural and Alternative New Religious Movements, in the following sections:
Causes of Belief in the Afterlife and Differences Across Religions and Cultures, in the following sections:
Why Did Some People in the Bible Live So Long?, in the following sections:
Animism: 1. Hyperactive Agent Detection Device (the Psychology of Religion and Superstition)
The New Age: 1.3. The Causes of the Rise of the New Age and other NRMs
God's Methods of Communication: Universal Truth Versus Hebrew and Arabic: 1. Oral Transmission
Modern Paganism (Neopaganism): 2. The Causes of Modern Paganism and other NRMs
Time to Move On: Religion Has Cost Too Much: 3.5. The God of the Gaps
Mass Belief and the False Consensus Effect: Everyone Believes It So It Must Be True!: 3.4. Religion
Human Story Telling: The Poor Accuracy of Oral Transmission
Life Expectancy and Longevity: 6. Sociological Data on Life Expectancy Versus Religion
Hyperactive Agent Detection Device (the Psychology of Religion and Superstition)
Political Power Struggles and Identity Reinforcement: Why are People Religious?
Religious Extremism: 2.1. Reactions to Multiculturalism
Sun Worship and the Founding of World Religions Such as Judaism and Christianity (Astrotheology): 1. The Cause of All Religion
Reincarnation: 1. About Belief in the Afterlife in General
The Resting God - The Hiding God: 1. The Hidden God - Why Not Provide Evidence?
Surviving Death and the Meaning of Life: 3. Religion
Religion and the Fear of Death
Religions Adapt and Change: 4. Continued Modern Adaptation: New Religious Movements
Near Death Experiences (NDEs): 1. Belief in the Afterlife
Not from the Human Truth Foundation, but still relevant (1):