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Grégory Dessart, « Children's God Representations: Are Anthropomorphic God Figures Only Human? », Serveur académique Lausannois, ID : 10.1007/978-3-030-94429-2_3
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In many religious traditions, anthropomorphism plays a central role in visual representations of the divine. As suggested by the notion of minimally coun- terintuitive properties (e.g., Boyer, Mapping the mind: Domain specificity in cogni- tion and culture, New York, pp. 391–411, 1994), some peculiar ontological arrangements (e.g., ontological violations) tend to characterize religious representa- tions. In the case of human-like God figures, such ontological peculiarities may consist of either: a combination of humanness and non-humanness (e.g., a human figure with wings), or a lack of central characteristics presenting qualities that are central to the human category (e.g., a face). The former corresponds to Guthrie’s (Faces in the clouds: A new theory of religion, New York, 1993) observation of the recurrent sameness-otherness combination with the human being to depict the divine. Such conceptual arrangements may change across a child’s development. However, research on children’s God representations has systematically considered anthropomorphic figures as distinct from non-anthropomorphic ones. The current work proposes a revised developmental model that accounts for domain-specific properties used by children to signify the special position of God as compared to human beings. That model is particularly appropriate to consider God representa- tions as depicted in children’s drawings.