In Gods we trust: the evolutionary landscape of religion
This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention, cultural selection,...
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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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Oxford [u.a.]
Oxford University Press
2004
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| In: | Year: 2004 |
| Edition: | First issued as an Oxford Univ. Press paperback |
| Series/Journal: | Evolution and cognition
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ Religiosity
/ Rise of
/ Hominisation
/ Cognitive anthropology
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion AG Religious life; material religion |
| Summary: | This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention, cultural selection, and historical survival of religion is an accommodation of certain existential and moral elements that have evolved in the human condition. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverz. S. 301 - 336 Originally published: 2002. - Formerly CIP Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Physical Description: | XVI, 348 S, Ill., graph. Darst., 24cm |
| ISBN: | 0195178033 |