0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Philosophy of religion

Buy Now

Religion Explained (Paperback, New Ed) Loot Price: R464
Discovery Miles 4 640
You Save: R49 (10%)

Religion Explained (Paperback, New Ed)

Pascal Boyer

 (sign in to rate)
List price R513 Loot Price R464 Discovery Miles 4 640 You Save R49 (10%)

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 9 - 17 working days

While human religious practice and belief are extraordinarily varied, they are nevertheless not infinitely so. The varieties of belief have provided generations of anthropologists and religious scholars with material for research; there have been fewer attempts to explore what religious beliefs have in common - and fewer still that have been convincing.

Following in the footsteps of Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker's explorations of what languages have in common beneath their vast superficial variety, Pascal Boyer explores the commonalities of religious belief, bringing the new tools of cognitive science and evolutionary psychology to bear on the ways in which beliefs reflect human needs and the ways in which our minds work. This is no sense an attempt to explain religion away, or to reduce it to simplistic nostrums; Boyer is him self an anthropologist, and rejects almost all the usual obvious, but unsatisfying, explanations for religion, in a book that is certainly ambitious and provocative, but also a rich exploration of this profound and important area of human experience - an area that is almost as universal and central to our shared humanity as our common use of language.

General

Imprint: Vintage
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 2002
First published: November 2002
Authors: Pascal Boyer
Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 430
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-928276-1
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Philosophy of religion > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Philosophy of religion > General
Promotions
LSN: 0-09-928276-3
Barcode: 9780099282761

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Die Braambos Bly Brand - Nie-teoloë Se…
Pieter Malan, Chris Jones Paperback R50 R47 Discovery Miles 470
Razi - Master of Quranic Interpretation…
Tariq Jaffer Hardcover R3,051 Discovery Miles 30 510
Tibetan Buddhism and Mystical Experience
Yaroslav Komarovski Hardcover R3,790 Discovery Miles 37 900
Entertaining Judgment - The Afterlife in…
Greg Garrett Hardcover R978 Discovery Miles 9 780
You Can't Put God in a Box - Thoughtful…
Kelly Besecke Hardcover R4,073 Discovery Miles 40 730
Martyrdom and Terrorism - Pre-Modern to…
Dominic Janes, Alex Houen Hardcover R4,092 Discovery Miles 40 920
Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in…
Matthew R. Dasti, Edwin F. Bryant Hardcover R4,084 Discovery Miles 40 840
How the Light Gets In - Ethical Life I
Graham Ward Hardcover R2,336 Discovery Miles 23 360
Shaolin Spirit
Caroline Waight Hardcover R665 R574 Discovery Miles 5 740
The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche
Ken Gemes, John Richardson Hardcover R4,832 Discovery Miles 48 320
The Resurrection - An Interdisciplinary…
Stephen T. Davis, Daniel Kendall, … Hardcover R2,524 Discovery Miles 25 240
Cultivating Virtue - Perspectives from…
Nancy E. Snow Hardcover R4,087 Discovery Miles 40 870

See more

Partners