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In Gods We Trust

Paperback • 2004 • English

In Gods We Trust

By Scott Atran

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About the book

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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9780195178036

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Published year

2004

Language

English

Original title

In Gods We Trust

Format

Paperback

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