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In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion

by Scott Atran

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Religion through an evolutionary and cognitive lens

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Religion through an evolutionary and cognitive lens

Scott Atran brings cognitive anthropology and psychology to the question of why religion emerges and endures. The book frames religious thought as a by-product of human evolution, while also examining how cultural selection and historical survival connect religion to existential concerns and moral life. Its interdisciplinary scope places evolutionary cognition alongside anthropology, culture, and philosophy of religion, centering an explanatory argument about the human conditions that religion addresses.

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  • Readers interested in cognitive and evolutionary approaches to religion
  • Students of religious philosophy, anthropology, or psychology
  • Adults exploring naturalistic accounts of religious belief

Themes

Evolution of cognitionOrigins of religionCognitive anthropologyCultural selectionExistential and moral concerns

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Book overview

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.
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