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.
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