How we believe : the search for God in an age of science /
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| Author / Creator: | Shermer, Michael |
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| Imprint: | New York : W.H. Freeman, c2000. |
| Description: | xvii, 302 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3983868 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: The God Question, A Moral Dilemma for Dr. Laura
- Part I.. God and Belief
- Chapter 1.. Do You Believe in God?: The Difference in Our Answers and the Difference It Makes
- Chapter 2.. Is God Dead?: Why Nietzsche and Time Magazine Were Wrong
- Chapter 3.. The Belief Engine: How We Believe
- Chapter 4.. Why People Believe in God: An Empirical Study on a Deep Question
- Chapter 5.. O Ye of Little Faith: Proofs of God and What They Tell Us About Faith
- Part II.. Religion and Science
- Chapter 6.. In a Mirror Dimly, Then Face to Face: Faith, Reason, and the Relationship of Religion and Science
- Chapter 7.. The Storytelling Animal: Myth, Morality, and the Evolution of Religion
- Chapter 8.. God and the Ghost Dance: The Eternal Return of the Messiah Myth
- Chapter 9.. The Fire That Will Cleanse: Millennial Meanings and the End of the World
- Chapter 10.. Glorious Contingency: Gould's Dangerous Idea and the Search for Meaning in the Age of Science
- Appendix I.. What Does It Mean to Study Religion: Scientifically? or, How Social Scientists "Do" Science
- Appendix II.. Why People Believe in God--The Data and Statistics
- A Bibliographic Essay on Theism, Atheism, and Why People Believe in God
- Notes
- Credits
- Index
