Religion Explained

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An excellent book in the spirit of the Fj.ench Enlightenment, broadly learned and with modern behavioural science acfded. Itdje'serves to be widely reád' jk wilson 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 experimentál findings in cognitíve. science, evolutionary biology and cultural anthjröpolqgy are now providing precise answers to these generál questions, and providing, for the first time, real answers to the question: Why do we believe? 'The wisdom in its pages will.be a revelation to any seeker after truth. While it lets daylight in upon magic, this book is never scornful and never dismissive, and Pascal Boyer's voice is as unpretentious as its title. If faithis the last refuge of the would-be believer, Religion Explained takes it away but puts something better ín its place, enlightenment and understanding'. ruth rendell •'In these.pages, Pascal Boyer offers a... Tovább

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An excellent book in the spirit of the Fj.ench Enlightenment, broadly learned and with modern behavioural science acfded. Itdje'serves to be widely reád' jk wilson 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 experimentál findings in cognitíve. science, evolutionary biology and cultural anthjröpolqgy are now providing precise answers to these generál questions, and providing, for the first time, real answers to the question: Why do we believe? 'The wisdom in its pages will.be a revelation to any seeker after truth. While it lets daylight in upon magic, this book is never scornful and never dismissive, and Pascal Boyer's voice is as unpretentious as its title. If faithis the last refuge of the would-be believer, Religion Explained takes it away but puts something better ín its place, enlightenment and understanding'. ruth rendell •'In these.pages, Pascal Boyer offers a deep, ingenious, and insightful analysis of one of the deepest mysteries of the humán species * Religion Explained is the mosUmportant treatment of the, psychological basis of religious belief that has appeared since William James's The Varieties of Religfous Experience' stéven pinker 'A fascinating analysis oT our ürge to believe' scotland onsunday Vissza