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The Attraction of Religion

By Slone, D. Jason

The Attraction of Religion Social Sciences

The Attraction of Religion

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Religion is an evolutionary puzzle. It involves beliefs in counterfactual worlds and engagement in costly rituals. Yet religion is widespread across all human cultures and eras. This begs the question, why are so many people attracted to religion? In The Attraction of Religion, essays by leading scholars in evolutionary psychology, anthropology, and religious studies demonstrate how religion may be related to evolutionary adaptations because religious commitments involve fitness-enhancing behaviours that promote reproduction, kinship, and social solidarity. Could it be that religion is wide-spread, at least in the modern world, because it helps to facilitate cooperative breeding? International contributors explore the philosophical and theoretical arguments for and against the use of costly signalling, sexual selection, and related theories to explain religion, and empirical findings that support or disconfirm such claims. The first book-length treatment that focuses specifically on costly signalling, sexual selection, and related evolutionary theories to explain religion, The Attraction of Religion will be an important contribution to the field and will be of interest to researchers in the fields of evolutionary psychology, religion and science, the psychology of religion, and anthropology of religion.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
270
Release Date:
2016-08-25
Publication Date:
2016-08-25
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1350005282
ISBN13:
9781350005280
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
415 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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