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Record Nr.

UNISA996248075303316

Autore

Boyer Pascal

Titolo

Religion Explained [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Basic Books, 2007

ISBN

0-465-00461-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Disciplina

200

Soggetti

Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. What Is the Origin?; 2. What Supernatural Concepts are Like; 3. The Kind of Mind It Takes; 4. Why Gods and Spirits?; 5. Why Do Gods and Spirits Matter?; 6. Why Is Religion About Death?; 7. Why Rituals?; 8. Why Doctrines, Exclution, and Violence?; 9. Why Belief?; Further Readings; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

""The first classic of 21st-century anthropology.""--John Tooby and Leda Cosmides, University of California, Santa Barbara