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 |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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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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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AG Religious life; material religion |