In Gods We Trust : The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion

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

by Scott Atran

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In Gods We Trust : The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion

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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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LanguageEnglish

PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

Publication DateDec. 9th, 2004

Pages348

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"Atran's work is a brilliant exposition of the evolutionary by-product interpretation [of religion] as well as a mine of references for empirical research into the psychology of religion."--Pascal Boyer, Current Anthropology

Introduction : an evolutionary riddle	p. 3
The mindless agent : evolutionary adaptations and by-products	p. 21
God's creation : evolutionary origins of the supernatural	p. 51
Counterintuitive worlds : the mostly mundane nature of religious belief	p. 83
The sense of sacrifice : culture, communication, and commitment	p. 114
Ritual and revelation : the emotional mind	p. 149
Waves of passion : the neuropsychology of religion	p. 174
Culture without mind : sociobiology and group selection	p. 199
The trouble with memes : inference versus imitation in cultural creation	p. 236
Conclusion : why religion seems here to stay	p. 263
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LanguageEnglish

PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

Publication DateDec. 9th, 2004

Pages348

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