Matthew J Rossano

Supernatural Selection

How Religion Evolved

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Author Matt J. Rossano provides an evolutionary history of religion, beginning with the social lives of our primate ancestors. This book makes the case that religion is adaptive; that it is essential to morality; that childhood imagination provides its raw materials, and that it is the very essence of what it means to be human.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 167mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780195385816
• ISBN-10: 0195385810
• Artikelnr.: 28949536

Autorenporträt

Matt Rossano is head of the Psychology Department at Southeastern Louisiana University. He is the author of Evolutionary Psychology: The Science of Human Behavior and Evolution.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1.: Natural Relationships and Supernatural Relationships
2.: Making a Good Impression
3.: "Every Move You Make": First Signs of the Supernatural Eye
4.: The African Interregnum
5.: The African Interregnum Part II
6.: Before and After the Interregnum: The Evolution of the Two "Modes" of Religion
7.: Religion is (or was) an Adaptation
6.: Religion and Morality
5.: Religion's Past and Future