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Autore |
Atran Scott |
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Titolo |
In Gods We Trust [[electronic resource] ] : The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-84511-2 |
9786610845118 |
0-19-803405-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (389 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Genetic psychology |
Psychology, Religious |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; 1 Introduction: An Evolutionary Riddle; PART I: EVOLUTIONARY SOURCES; PART II: ABSURD COMMITMENTS; A photogallery; PART III: RITUAL PASSIONS; PART IV: MINDBLIND THEORIES; Notes; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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