In Gods We Trust The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion

Name: In Gods We Trust The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion
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ISBN: 9780195178036

ISBN-10: 0195178033

ISBN-13: 9780195178036

Edition: 2005

Authors: Scott Atran

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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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List price: $46.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/9/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 388
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English




Introduction : an evolutionary riddle



The mindless agent : evolutionary adaptations and by-products



God's creation : evolutionary origins of the supernatural



Counterintuitive worlds : the mostly mundane nature of religious belief



The sense of sacrifice : culture, communication, and commitment



Ritual and revelation : the emotional mind



Waves of passion : the neuropsychology of religion



Culture without mind : sociobiology and group selection



The trouble with memes : inference versus imitation in cultural creation



Conclusion : why religion seems here to stay