Religion Explained

Religion Explained

Summary

Why are there religious beliefs in all cultures? Do they have features in common and why does religion persist in the face of science? Pascal Boyer shows how experimental findings in cognitive science, evolutionary biology and cultural anthropology are now providing precise answers to these general questions, and providing, for the first time, real answers to the question: Why do we believe?

Reviews

  • A deep, ingenious, and insightful analysis of one of the deepest mysteries of the human species
    Steven Pinker

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Pascal Boyer

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