The Emergence of Religion in Human Evolution

ISBN-13: 9780367245207 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 252 str.

Margaret Boone Rappaport; Christopher J. Corbally

Opis

This book uses a multidisciplinary approach to describe millions of years of biological innovations that eventually give rise to the modern trait and its varied expression in humanity’s many religions.

Spis treści

Preface; Part I. Introduction to Theory; 1 New Sciences, New Findings, and a New Model; 2 Shifting Evolutionary Paradigms and the Study of Advanced Neurocognitive Traits; Part II. The Model; 3 The Human Hearth, the Circle of Light, and the Evolution of Morality; 4 Model for the Evolution of a Trait for Religious Capacity; Part III. The Implications; 5 The Neuroplastic Species; 6 Staying Alive, Becoming Religious; 7 Future Artificial Species: Will They Be Moral? Will They Be Religious?; Index