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Cognitive science of religion

the level of complexity at which religious ideas are easiest to remember and pass on, toward which they tend to drift without special support such as repetition.

In cognitive science of religion, cognitive optimum refers to the level of complexity at which religious ideas are easiest to remember and pass on, toward which they tend to drift without special support such as repetition. This meaning comes from Whitehouse (2004) in Modes of Religiosity.[1]

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Whitehouse, H. (2004). Modes of Religiosity. AltaMira Press. ISBN 9780759106147

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