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Why We Need Religion

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Why We Need Religion

By Columbia College Chicago) Asma Stephen T. (Professor of Philosophy

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About the book

How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think. This claim, based on the premise that emotions are largely adaptive, serves as the organizing theme of Why We Need Religion. This book is a novel pathway in a well-trodden field of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Stephen Asma argues that, like art, religion has direct access to our emotional lives in ways that science does not. Yes, science can give us emotional feelings of wonder and thesublime -we can feel the sacred depths...Show more

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9780190469672

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Published year

2018

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1

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Why We Need Religion

Format

Hardcover

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