Full name: In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion

Author: Scott Atran Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Religion, Psychology, Science, Anthology, Non Fiction, History, Philosophy, Atheism Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780195178036 0195178033

This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention, cultural selection, and historical survival of religion is an accommodation of certain existential and moral elements that have evolved in the human condition. Similar books: Religion Explained by Pascal Boyer Religion in Human Evolution by Robert N. Bellah When God Talks Back by T. M. Luhrmann Breaking the Spell by Daniel C. Dennett Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast by Lewis Wolpert The Invention of Religion by Alexander Drake The God Virus by Darrel W. Ray Imagine There's No Heaven by Mitchell Stephens Why There Is No God by Armin Navabi 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God by Guy P. Harrison The Evolution of God by Robert Wright Big Gods by Ara Norenzayan Mephistopheles by Jeffrey B. Russell The New Atheism by Victor J. Stenger God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris The End of Faith by Sam Harris The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliott Friedman Islam and the Future of Tolerance by Sam Harris