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The Attraction of Religion - A New Evolutionary Psychology of Religion (Hardcover)
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The Attraction of Religion - A New Evolutionary Psychology of Religion (Hardcover)
Series: Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
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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.
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