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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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bellah, Robert N. (Robert Neelly), 1927-2013
Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Description:	xxvii, 746 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Religion. Human evolution -- Religious aspects. Theological anthropology. Ethnology -- Religious aspects. Religions. Theological anthropology. Religions. Religion, Prehistoric. Religion. Human evolution -- Religious aspects. Ethnology -- Religious aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library's ArcMon copy 2 has original dust jacket.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8455788

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Varying Form of Title:	From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
ISBN:	9780674061439 (alk. paper) 0674061438 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Summary:	This ambitious book probes our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have imagined were worth living. Bellah's theory goes deep into cultural and genetic evolution to identify a range of capacities (communal dancing, storytelling, theorizing) whose emergence made religious development possible in the first millennium BCE.
Physical Description:	xxvii, 746 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780674061439 0674061438