Larsson et al./Building Blocks, 4. Counterintuitive Supernaturalism as a Building Block

In his chapter, Andreas Nordin discusses the BBA from the perspective of some common standard methodological assumptions in the broader subfield of the cognitive and evolutionary science of religion and cognitive anthropology that suggest a piecemeal and “fractionated” under- standing of so-called religious phenomena. This topic is addressed by defending the notion that the cognition of supernatural dreaming is a pervasive part and consequently a building block of religious experience and tradition.