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Religion Explained
  • Published: 15 November 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099282761
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $50.00

Religion Explained

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1 Sept 2010
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15 Nov 2002
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A brilliant and provocative exploration of the nature of human religious belief, and what it can tell us about human psychology and evolution.

Why are there religious beliefs in all cultures? Do they have features in common and why does religion persist in the face of science? Pascal Boyer shows how experimental findings in cognitive science, evolutionary biology and cultural anthropology are now providing precise answers to these general questions, and providing, for the first time, real answers to the question: Why do we believe?
  • Published: 15 November 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099282761
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $50.00

About the author

Pascal Boyer

Formerly at Princeton, King's College, Cambridge and the University of Lyon, Pascal Boyer is Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, USA and a Guggenheim Fellow.
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