In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of ReligionOxford University Press, USA, 2004 M12 9 - 348 páginas "In this interdisciplinary book, Scott Atran addresses these questions and more as he attempts to map the evolutionary landscape of religion. He argues that current explanations for religion do not sufficiently explain society's committments to a logically absurd world of supernatural causes and beings, questioning why evolution did not select against such curiously costly beliefs and behaviors as making gigantic pyramids to house the dead, blowing oneself up for the pleasures of paradise, sacrificing one's children as a measure of religious sincerity, or setting aside large chunks of time to mumble incoherent words repititiously. Observing the limitations of most functional explanations for the cultural power of religion, he proposes that religion is less an adaptation to a specific function (or collective need) than a natural basin of possibilities to which human lives spontaneously converge. |
Contenido
An Evolutionary Riddle | 3 |
EVOLUTIONARY SOURCES | 19 |
ABSURD COMMITMENTS | 81 |
A photogallery | 147 |
RITUAL PASSIONS | 147 |
MINDBLIND THEORIES | 197 |
Notes | 281 |
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