LEADER 04077nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910781526803321 005 20230220175128.0 010 $a0-674-06309-0 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674063099 035 $a(CKB)2550000000074684 035 $a(EBL)3301004 035 $a(OCoLC)768123033 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000551996 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11404106 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000551996 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10539314 035 $a(PQKB)11082062 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301004 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301004 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10518214 035 $a(DE-B1597)178116 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674063099 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000074684 100 $a20110110d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReligion in human evolution$b[electronic resource] $efrom the Paleolithic to the Axial Age /$fRobert N. Bellah 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (784 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-06143-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aReligion and reality -- Religion and evolution -- Tribal religion : the production of meaning -- From tribal to archaic religion : meaning and power -- Archaic religion : God and king -- The Axial Age I : introduction and ancient Israel -- The Axial Age II : ancient Greece -- The Axial Age III : China in the late first millennium BCE -- The Axial Age IV : ancient India -- Conclusion. 330 $aReligion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition?a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently seen as a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that goes deep into evolution, especially but not exclusively cultural evolution.How did our early ancestors transcend the "idian demands of everyday existence to embrace an alternative reality that called into question the very meaning of their daily struggle? Robert Bellah, one of the leading sociologists of our time, identifies a range of cultural capacities, such as communal dancing, storytelling, and theorizing, whose emergence made this religious development possible. Deploying the latest findings in biology, cognitive science, and evolutionary psychology, he traces the expansion of these cultural capacities from the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (roughly, the first millennium BCE), when individuals and groups in the Old World challenged the norms and beliefs of class societies ruled by kings and aristocracies. These religious prophets and renouncers never succeeded in founding their alternative utopias, but they left a heritage of criticism that would not be quenched. Bellah?s treatment of the four great civilizations of the Axial Age?in ancient Israel, Greece, China, and India?shows all existing religions, both prophetic and mystic, to be rooted in the evolutionary story he tells. Religion in Human Evolution answers the call for a critical history of religion grounded in the full range of human constraints and possibilities. 606 $aReligion 606 $aHuman evolution$xReligious aspects 606 $aReligion, Prehistoric 606 $aTheological anthropology 606 $aEthnology$xReligious aspects 606 $aReligions 615 0$aReligion. 615 0$aHuman evolution$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aReligion, Prehistoric. 615 0$aTheological anthropology. 615 0$aEthnology$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aReligions. 676 $a200.89/009 700 $aBellah$b Robert N$g(Robert Neelly),$f1927-2013.$0142498 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781526803321 996 $aReligion in human evolution$93825398 997 $aUNINA