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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464566803321

Autore

Tsoukalas Ioannis

Titolo

Conceiving God [[electronic resource] ] : perversions and brainstorms : a thesis on the origins of human religiosity / / by Ioannis Tsoukalas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2010

ISBN

1-282-58521-5

9786612585210

1-4438-1808-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (142 p.)

Disciplina

212

Soggetti

Religiousness

Transcendence of God

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [97]-115) and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; HUMAN EVOLUTION AND CULTURE; TRIANGULATING GOD; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL INTERSECTIONS; THE NATURAL HISTORY OF A SUPERNATURAL CONCEPT; THE MARKS OF RELIGION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; NOTES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a novel explanation for the emergence of the God-concept and human religiosity. In so doing it makes creative use of the most recent findings in anthropology, neurology and psychology. At the center of this explanation is the fact that