Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 662 g
The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion
Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 662 g
Reihe: Evolution and Cognition Series
ISBN: 978-0-19-517803-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press
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.