| In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion Contributor(s): Atran, Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195178033 ISBN-13: 9780195178036 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $44.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2004 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Religious - Religion | Philosophy - Religion | Psychology Of Religion |
| Dewey: 200.19 |
| LCCN: 2002074884 |
| Series: Evolution and Cognition (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6.24" W x 9.22" (1.20 lbs) 348 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
