Disbelief: the origins of atheism in a religious species
Losing Our Religion tells us how we became religious, why were leaving faith behind, and how we can get along with others across the religious divides weve culturally evolved
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Essex, Connecticut
Prometheus Books
[2024]
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Atheism
/ Faith
/ Evolutionary psychology
/ Social psychology
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AE Psychology of religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Religion and science
B Social Psychology / PSYCHOLOGY B Agnostizismus und Atheismus B Social psychology B Atheism B Religion, allgemein B RELIGION / Psychology of Religion B Faith B Religion: general B Social, group or collective psychology B Agnosticism & atheism B Atheism / RELIGION |
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Cover (Publisher) Table of Contents Table of Contents (Aggregator) Blurb |
| Summary: | Losing Our Religion tells us how we became religious, why were leaving faith behind, and how we can get along with others across the religious divides weve culturally evolved The evolutionary puzzles of faith and atheism -- Popular non-answers to the puzzle of faith -- The (more or less) myth of rational atheism -- Interlude: the puzzle of faith -- Darwinizing faith -- How culture evolves -- Faith in context -- Why some religions persist -- Interlude: the puzzle of atheism -- Do you believe in atheists? -- Take me to your secular world -- How many atheists are there -- Pathways to atheism -- Stable secular societies -- Atheism is natural -- Interlude: a God's eye view -- The future of faith and atheism. "A revelatory book, Disbelief is not about defining the relationship between science and religion; it's about using science to better understand religion in order to better understand human nature"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Physical Description: | XVII, 409 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-1-63388-924-8 |
