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Supernatural Selection
Author | : Matt Rossano |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2010-05-28 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0199798788 |
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In 2006, scientist Richard Dawkins published a blockbuster bestseller, The God Delusion. This atheist manifesto sparked a furious reaction from believers, who have responded with numerous books of their own. By pitting science against religion, however, this debate overlooks what science can tell us about religion. According to evolutionary psychologist Matt J. Rossano, what science reveals is that religion made us human. In Supernatural Selection, Rossano presents an evolutionary history of religion. Neither an apologist for religion nor a religion-basher, he draws together evidence from a wide range of disciplines to show the valuable--even essential--adaptive purpose served by systematic belief in the supernatural. The roots of religion stretch as far back as half a million years, when our ancestors developed the motor control to engage in social rituals--that is, to sing and dance together. Then, about 70,000 years ago, a global ecological crisis drove humanity to the edge of extinction. It forced the survivors to create new strategies for survival, and religious rituals were foremost among them. Fundamentally, Rossano writes, religion is a way for humans to relate to each other and the world around them--and, in the grim struggles of prehistory, it offered significant survival and reproductive advantages. It emerged as our ancestors' first health care system, and a critical part of that health care system was social support. Religious groups tended to be far more cohesive, which gave them a competitive advantage over non-religious groups, and enabled them to conquer the globe. Rather than focusing on one aspect of religion, as many theorists do, Rossano offers an all-encompassing approach that is rich with surprises, insights, and provocative conclusions.
Religion as Magical Ideology
Author | : Konrad Talmont-Kaminski |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2014-10-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781317544739 |
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'Religion as Magical Ideology' examines the relationship between rationality and supernatural beliefs arguing that such beliefs are products of evolution, cognition and culture. The book does not offer a false rapprochement between reason and religion; instead, it explores their interrelationship as a series of complex adaptations between cognitive and cultural processes. Exploring the nature of the tension between religious traditions and reason, 'Religion as Magical Ideology' develops a dual inheritance theory of religion - which combines the cognitive byproduct and prosocial adaptation accounts - and analyses the connection between the function of a belief and the degree of protection it gets from potential counter-evidence. With discussion ranging from individual cognitive mechanisms, general functional considerations, to the limits of evolutionary and cognitive processes, the book offers readers a systematic account of how cognition shapes religious beliefs and practices.
Supernatural Religion
Author | : Walter Richard Cassels |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2018-09-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783734036552 |
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Reproduction of the original: Supernatural Religion by Walter Richard Cassels
Supernatural Religion
Author | : Anonymous |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2023-02-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783368802479 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Supernatural and Natural Selection
Author | : Lyle B. Steadman,Craig T. Palmer |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2015-11-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317251156 |
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Spanning many different epochs and varieties of religious experience, this book develops a new approach to religion and its role in human history. The authors look across a range of religious phenomena-from ancestor worship to totemism, shamanism, and worldwide modern religions-to offer a new explanation of the evolutionary success of religious behaviors. Their book is more empirical and verifiable than most previous books on evolution and religion because they develop an approach that removes guesswork about beliefs in the supernatural, focusing instead on the behaviors of individuals. The result is a pioneering look at how and why natural selection has favored religious behaviors throughout history.
The Lost Gospel and Its Contents Or The Author of Supernatural Religion Refuted by Himself
Author | : Michael Ferrebee Sadler |
Publsiher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781465508447 |
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Essays on the Work Entitled Supernatural Religion
Author | : Joseph Barber Lightfoot |
Publsiher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781465508430 |
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Supernatural Religion
Author | : Walter Richard Cassels |
Publsiher | : Rose-Belford Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 1136 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : UTEXAS:059171104188932 |
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