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Author Boyer, Pascal.

Title Religion explained : the evolutionary origins of religious thought / Pascal Boyer.

Imprint New York : Basic Books, c2001.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  200.19 B695r    ---  Available
Description vii, 375 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-357) and index.
Contents What is the origin? -- What supernatural concepts are like -- The kind of mind it takes -- Why gods and spirits? -- Why do gods and spirits matter? -- Why is religion about death? -- Why rituals? -- Why doctrines, exclusion and violence? -- Why belief?
Subject Religion.
Psychology, Religious.
ISBN 0465006965 (pbk.)

 
    
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