description: 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 why do we believe?
language: English
title: Religion Explained : The Human Instincts That Fashion Gods@@ Spirits and Ancestors
titlecomplete: Religion Explained : The Human Instincts That Fashion Gods@@ Spirits and Ancestors
genres: History, Philosophy, Religion, Sociology, Psychology, Science, Atheism, Nonfiction, Evolution, Anthropology
ratings_count: 2304
publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of R