Religion in human evolution : from the Paleolithic to the Axial Age /

Religion in human evolution : from the Paleolithic to the Axial Age /

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Author / Creator:	Bellah, Robert N. (Robert Neelly), 1927-2013, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xxvii, 746 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Religion. Human evolution -- Religious aspects. Religion, Prehistoric. Theological anthropology. Ethnology -- Religious aspects. Religions. Ethnology -- Religious aspects. Human evolution -- Religious aspects. Religion. Religion, Prehistoric. Religions. Theological anthropology. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11121486

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ISBN:	9780674063099 0674063090 9780674061439 0674061438
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Examines the history of religion from early ancestors by using biology, cognitive science, and evolutionary psychology, and follows the expansion of religion.
Other form:	Print version: Bellah, Robert Neelly, 1927- Religion in human evolution. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011 9780674061439

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Summary:	A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An ABC Australia Best Book on Religion and Ethics of the Year Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition--a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently seen as a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that goes deep into evolution, especially but not exclusively cultural evolution. "Of Bellah's brilliance there can be no doubt. The sheer amount this man knows about religion is otherworldly...Bellah stands in the tradition of such stalwarts of the sociological imagination as Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. Only one word is appropriate to characterize this book's subject as well as its substance, and that is 'magisterial.'" --Alan Wolfe, New York Times Book Review " Religion in Human Evolution is a magnum opus founded on careful research and immersed in the 'reflective judgment' of one of our best thinkers and writers." --Richard L. Wood, Commonweal
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xxvii, 746 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780674063099 0674063090 9780674061439 0674061438