Author | : Scott Atran |
File Size | : 53,6 Mb |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 09 December 2004 |
ISBN | : 9780199884346 |
Pages | : 388 pages |
In Gods We Trust by Scott Atran Book PDF Summary
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.