false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170295378m/45747.jpg 45747 2 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. 44920 2002 In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (Evolution and Cognition Series) total:20|5:10|4:5|3:3|2:2| 20 83 67 2 3 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 09:55:16 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 19:13:06 -0700 2008 1 In Gods We Trust was published a year after Pascal Boyer's Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought, which covers the same basic ground (Atran admits as much in the first e...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 11:25:02 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 11:27:00 -0700 2009
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