{"id":147,"date":"2010-03-24T00:06:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T23:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/?p=147"},"modified":"2023-07-24T16:09:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T14:09:27","slug":"varieties-of-disbelief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/blogs\/dan-sperber\/varieties-of-disbelief\/","title":{"rendered":"Varieties of disbelief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 15, the Washington Post website put a link to a small ethnographic study by Daniel Dennett and Linda LaScola entitled &#8220;Preachers who are not Believers.&#8221; In this remarkable piece, the authors present interviews of five protestant pastors who have lost their faith, and analyse their predicament. This is stirring a growing debate not only at the WaPo website, but also on the religious blogosphere (e.g., here [1]). It is of cognition-and-culture relevance because the interview, the analyses, and the arguments go into fine-grained discussions of the variety of cognitive attitudes involved in \u2018belief&#8217;, which, with a few exceptions, have been sorely lacking in the ethnography of religion.<\/p>\n[1] <a href=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/Because-I-said-so_-Pastors-who-dont-believe-in-God.pdf\">Because I said so_ Pastors who don&#8217;t believe in God<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 15, the Washington Post website put a link to a small ethnographic study by Daniel Dennett and Linda LaScola entitled &#8220;Preachers who are not Believers.&#8221; In this remarkable piece, the authors present interviews of five protestant pastors who have lost their faith, and analyse their predicament. 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