Robin Dunbar

Gebundenes Buch

How Religion Evolved

And Why It Endures

Beschreibung

In How Religion Evolved, Robin Dunbar explores the evolution of religion from the earliest practices to the world religions familiar to us today. Examining religion's origins, social functions, its effects on the brain and body, and its place in the modern era, Dunbar offers a fascinating and far-reaching analysis of the quintessentially human impulse to believe.

Autor

Robin Dunbar is an Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford. His most recent publications include Evolution: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) and Human Evolution: Our Brains and Behavior.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 162mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9780197631829
• ISBN-10: 0197631827
• Artikelnr.: 62606873

Rezensionen

Stimulating and hugely ambitious... A compelling intellectual workout. Dunbar offers a powerful central argument, an excellent survey of alternative theories and a wide range of vivid and illuminating examples... The story he tells is important to us all Matthew Reisz Observer