Religion provides explanations: • People created religion to explain puzzling natural phenomena. • Religion explains puzzling experiences: dreams, prescience, etc. • Religion explains the origins of things. • Religion explains why there is evil and suffering. Religion provides comfort: • Religious explanations make mortality less Brand: Basic Books. · Religion explained: the evolutionary origins of religious thought User Review - Not Available - Book Verdict Utilizing cross-cultural studies and a multidisciplinary approach, anthropologist Boyer (research fellow, Inst. of Cognitive Science, Lyon, France) argues that . Pascal Boyer () Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious www.doorway.ru York: Basic Books Religious concepts are those supernatural concepts that matter. The world over, people entertain concepts of beings with special qualities and special powers.
PASCAL BOYER is the Henry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective Memory at Washington University in St. Louis. He teaches in the psychology and anthropology departments. He is the author of: Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought. Pascal Boyer () Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious www.doorway.ru York: Basic Books Dead people, like vegetables, can be pickled or preserved. You can also abandon them to the beasts of the field, burn them like rubbish or bury them like treasure. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY . Cognitive anthropologist Boyer does not shrink from the task of explaining "the full history of all religion (ever)" in this engaging but somewhat oversold synopsis of anthropological findings, purporting to show how "the intractable mystery that was religion is now just another set of difficult but manageable problems.".
Religion provides explanations: • People created religion to explain puzzling natural phenomena. • Religion explains puzzling experiences: dreams, prescience, etc. • Religion explains the origins of things. • Religion explains why there is evil and suffering. Religion provides comfort: • Religious explanations make mortality less. Pascal Boyer () Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought. New York: Basic Books Dead people, like vegetables, can be pickled or preserved. You can also abandon them to the beasts of the field, burn them like rubbish or bury them like treasure. From embalming to. Pascal Boyer () Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought. New York: Basic Books Religious concepts are those supernatural concepts that matter. The world over, people entertain concepts of beings with special qualities and special powers. They live forever; in some.
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