Faith Instinct How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures

Name: Faith Instinct How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures
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ISBN: 9780143118190

ISBN-10: 0143118196

ISBN-13: 9780143118190

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Authors: Nicholas Wade

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A New York Timesscience reporter makes a startling new case that religion has an evolutionary basis. For the last 50,000 years, and probably much longer, people have practiced religion. Yet little attention has been given to the question of whether this universal human behavior might have been implanted in human nature. In this original and thought-provoking work, Nicholas Wade traces how religion grew to be so essential to early societies in their struggle for survival, how an instinct for faith became hardwired into human nature, and how it provided an impetus for law and government. The Faith Instinctoffers an objective and nonpolemical exploration of humanity's quest for spiritual…

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List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/28/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.40" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Born in Aylesbury, England, Nicholas Wade studies at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. He has worked at nature and Science and is currently a science reporter for The New York Times. The author of four previous books, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey.




The Nature of Religion



The Moral Instinct



The Evolution of Religious Behavior



Music, Dance and Trance



Ancestral Religion



The Transformation



The Tree of Religion



Morality, Trust and Trade



The Ecology of Religion



Religion and Warfare



Religion and Nation



The Future of Religion


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Acknowledgments


Index