ABSTRACT
As I have dened it, religion is dependent on language and communication. Religious language is language about or related to superhuman agents, and religious practice concerns interaction with superhuman agents. ese practices are communal in the sense that they involve not just interaction with superhuman agents, but also a great deal of interaction with human agents. While this chapter deals mostly with the attribution of propositional attitudes and how such attribution changes in the context of literacy, Chapter 4 concerns communality and how it changes in the context of literacy. Superhuman agents, and their names, I treat in Chapters 5 and 6.
