Clay Routledge (Professor of Psychology, North Dakota State University)
Humans-even those who consider themselves secular or atheists-are utterly seduced by supernatural beliefs. Clay Routledge, an experimental social psychologist who grew up in a deeply religious environment, argues that belief or trust in forces beyond our understanding is natural and rooted in our fears of death. In Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World, Routledge argues that supernatural thinking is adaptive, even healthy, andthat it should unite and not divide us.
Humans-even those who consider themselves secular or atheists-are utterly seduced by supernatural beliefs. Clay Routledge, an experimental social psyc...
