Religion Explained: The Human Instincts That Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors

by PascalBoyer (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2001

  $4.20

  Pascal Boyer explores the commonalities of religious belief, bringing the new tools of cognitive science and evolutionary psychology to bear on the ways in which beliefs reflect human needs and the ways in which our minds work.

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $17.06

  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?