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Joseph Behe
Translation of: Et l'homme craea les dieux.
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Pascal Boyer
This volume brings together a collection of seven articles previously published by the author, with a new introduction reframing the articles in the context of past and present questions in…
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Why are there religious beliefs in all cultures? Do they have features in common and why does religion persist in the face of science? This work shows how experimental findings…
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Many of our questions about religion, states Pascal Boyer, are no longer mysteries. We are beginning to know how to answer questions such as why do people have religion…
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A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies
The main theme of this treatise is that important aspects of religious representation are constrained by the human mind. The author uses experimental results from developmental psychology to explain why…
Tradition as Truth and Communication deals particularly with oral communication and focuses on the privileged role of licensed speakers and the ritual contexts in which certain aspects of tradition are…
How are religious ideas presented, acquired and transmitted? The present book is a contribution to this ambitious programme. In closely focused essays, a group of anthropologists debate the particular nature…
The book will provide non-technical answers about human memory and its role in making us who we are and making societies what they are. Some of the best memory scholars…
Embolization
This handy and accessible quick reference to visceral artery embolization details each procedure in its entirety and discusses expected outcomes. It also compares embolization to other therapeutic options.
Takes the reader onto a journey through science and the dissolution of religion. The author argues that religion is largely an illusion. He traces religion’s cognitive and evolutionary aspects.
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This collection examines new psychological evidence for the modal theory and attempts to synthesize this theory with other theories of cognition and religion.
