In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion - Rilegato

Atran, Scott

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ISBN 10: 0195149300 ISBN 13: 9780195149302

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 2002

Riassunto

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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L'autore:

Scott Atran is a senior research scientist at the Institut Jean Nicod at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. He is also Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Psychology, and Natural Resources and the Environment at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. A respected cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, his publications includeFondement de l'histoire naturelle, Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Towards an Anthropology of Science, andFolk Biology. He has done long-term fieldwork in the Middle East and has also written and experimented extensively on the ways scientists and ordinary people categorize and reason about nature. He currently directs an international, multidisciplinary project on the natural history of the Lowland Maya.

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Book by Atran Scott

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• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0195149300
• ISBN 13: 9780195149302
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 400