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Horseshoes, angels and other UFOs: Rethinking faith in light of present-day superstitions
Submitted: 09 December 2010 | Published: 08 September 2011
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Cornel W. du Toit, UNISA, South AfricaAbstract
But how should religion and superstition be viewed in a postmetaphysical, technoscientific environment? How can the supernatural aspects of religion and superstition be accommodated in such an environment? The role of affect and belief (placebo effect) in religion and superstition is also scrutinised. Viewed differently, both religion and superstition are considered natural and are proposed as a form of immanent transcendence, in which the ‘supernatural’ is not posited as a metaphysical model but is worked out ‘from below’ in terms of the human constitution.
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