- Bib ID:
- 4772175
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Wade, Nicholas
- Description:
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- New York : Penguin Press, 2009
- 310 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781594202285
- Summary:
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Draws on a broad range of scientific evidence to theorize an evolutionary basis for religion, considering how religion may have served as an essential component of early society survival and that the brain may be inherently inclined toward religious behavior.
- Full contents:
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- 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, trade, and trust
- The ecology of religion
- Religion and warfare
- Religion and nation
- The future of religion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Religion -- Philosophy
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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