Religion in Human Evolution From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

Name: Religion in Human Evolution From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
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ISBN: 9780674061439

ISBN-10: 0674061438

ISBN-13: 9780674061439

Edition: 2011

Authors: Robert N. Bellah

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Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition-a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently seen as a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that goes deep into evolution, especially but not exclusively cultural evolution. How did our early ancestors transcend the quotidian demands of everyday existence to embrace an alternative reality that called into question the very meaning of their daily struggle? Robert Bellah, one of the leading sociologists of our time, identifies a range of cultural capacities, such as communal dancing,…

Book details

List price: $43.50
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/15/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 782
Size: 6.85" wide x 9.29" long x 1.82" tall
Weight: 2.530
Language: English