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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Boyer, Pascal. Religion explained. New York : Basic Books, ©2001 (DLC) 00054661 (OCoLC)45620597 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Pascal Boyer |
ISBN: | 0585417482 9780585417486 9780465004614 046500461X 0465006957 9780465006953 0465006965 9780465006960 |
OCLC Number: | 51620873 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 375 pages) : illustrations |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | What is the origin? -- What supernatural concepts are like -- The kind of mind it takes -- Why gods and spirits? -- Why do gods and spirits matter? -- Why is religion about death? -- Why rituals? -- Why doctrines, exclusion and violence? -- Why belief? |
Series Title: | ATLA Special Series. |
Responsibility: | Pascal Boyer. |
More information: |
Abstract:
Many of our questions about religion, states Pascal Boyer, are no longer mysteries. We are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "why do people have religion?". This book provides readers with a scientific explanation for what religious feeling is really about and where it comes from.
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