(February 19, 2015 at 12:30 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Support this claim with a link to the study, or at least legitimate reportage about it.
Wish I had the journal to hand but I did read an article on Jstor the other day with a study done on Japanese kids in an environment who had never had contact with a religious tradition. Hard here but not too difficult in major urban centers there.
Apparently their beliefs were "suspecting the existence of a supreme, usually single being, spirit or force". I'll see if I can find it.
The study originally was directed around imaginary friends, but this developed out of it (since what puzzled the researchers was the kids all came up with a similar concept despite having no contact to share ideas).
