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Supernatural selection : how religion evolved /

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Author Matt J. Rossano provides an evolutionary history of religion, beginning with the social lives of our primate ancestors. This book makes the case that religion is adaptive ; that it is essential to morality; that childhood imagination provides its raw materials, and that it is the very essence...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rossano, Matthew J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Religion.
Human evolution > Religious aspects.
Religion
Êtres humains > Évolution > Aspect religieux.
religion (discipline)
RELIGION > History.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Religious.
Human evolution > Religious aspects
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Natural relationships and supernatural relationships
  • Making a good impression
  • "Every move you make" : first signs of the supernatural eye
  • The African interregnum, part I : good rituals make good friends
  • The African interregnum, part II : the evolution of supernatural imagination
  • Before and after the interregnum : the evolution of the two "modes" of religion
  • Religion is (or was) an adaptation
  • Religion and morality
  • Religion's past and future.