In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion

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.

Author: Scott Atran
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 12/09/2004
Series: Evolution and Cognition
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.24w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780195178036