Cross-cultural similarities in reasoning about personal continuity in reincarnation: evidence from South India

Ethnographic reports suggest the cross-cultural recurrence of practices designed to determine who has returned to the human world through the process of reincarnation. This paper attempts to explain these trends by cross-culturally replicating experiments originally conducted in the US with particip...

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Main Author: White, Claire (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2016
In: Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2016, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 130-153
Further subjects:B Cross-cultural
B Reincarnation
B Jainism
B Personal Identity
B Social cognition
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