| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 294 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Natural relationships and supernatural relationships -- Making a good impression -- "Every move you make" : first signs of the supernatural eye -- The African interregnum, part I : good rituals make good friends -- The African interregnum, part II : the evolution of supernatural imagination -- Before and after the interregnum : the evolution of the two "modes" of religion -- Religion is (or was) an adaptation -- Religion and morality -- Religion's past and future |
| Summary |
Author Matt J. Rossano provides an evolutionary history of religion, beginning with the social lives of our primate ancestors. This book makes the case that religion is adaptive ; that it is essential to morality; that childhood imagination provides its raw materials, and that it is the very essence of what it means to be human |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Religion.
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Human evolution -- Religious aspects.
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Religion
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religion (discipline)
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RELIGION -- History.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Religious.
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Human evolution -- Religious aspects
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Religion
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199750771 |
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0199750777 |
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