This open access book explores how children draw god around the world. It looks at children’s drawings in a large variety of cultural and religious

The present work is the first study to systematically compare the minds of gods by examining some of the intuitive processes that guide how people reason about them. By examining the Christian god and the spirit-masters of the Tyva Republic, it first confirms that the consensus view of the Christian god's mind is one of omniscience with acute concern for interpersonal social behavior (i.e., mor...

Firdowsi's Shahnameh, the poetic mythological epic of Iran, is created on the base of opposite forces of the world, namely Iran and Aniran and the battles of their people, because the design of the mythological history of Iran is also basically created on the intercourse of opposites .One of the most comprehensive philosophical views on history is  Friedrich Hegel's attitude. In this view, the ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Believers describe God as a strategic social agent who perceives human thoughts and actions. Thinking about God therefore might make believers feel as if their behavior is being monitored, a possibility we call the supernatural monitoring hypothesis. Three studies offered new and converging empirical support for this hypothesis using two variables that are sensitive to per...

Capital Deepening and Wage Differentials: Germany vs. US Capital deepening may affect the evolution of the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers differently in countries with different labor market institutions. If labor market institutions raise the relative wage of unskilled workers in Germany, firms have incentives to invest relatively more into capital equipment complement...

Partners: Contractors: KVAERNER/LogIT AS (Norway), Port of Gothenburg (Sweden), TRD International S.A. (Greece) Associated partners: Swedish State Railways/Gods (Sweden), Marintek Norwegian Marine Technology Research Institute (Norway) SINTEF Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (Norway), Fraunhofer Institut für Informationsund Datenverarbei...