In Gods We Trust The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion - Evolution and Cognition

Scott Atran

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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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Oxford University Press

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Book information

ISBN:	9780195178036
Publisher:	OUP USA
Imprint:	Oxford University Press
Pub date:	06 Jan 2005
DEWEY:	200.19
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	348
Weight:	624g
Height:	233mm
Width:	155mm
Spine width:	21mm