In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (Evolution and Cognition) - Couverture souple

Atran, Scott

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195178033 ISBN 13 : 9780195178036

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Atran Scott

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

With almost 1000 references and discussions of most of human history and culture, from Neanderthal burials to suicide-bombers in the Palestinian anti-colonialist struggle, this book is consciously and truly encyclopedic in scope, and shows both breadth and depth of scholarship...the reader finds himself constantly challenged and provoked into an intellectual ping-pong game as he follows the arguments and the huge body of findings marshalled to buttress them...Atran managed to combine the old and the new by relating the automatic cognitive operations to existential anxieties. This combination will be a benchmark and a challenge to students od religion in all disciplines. (Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, in Human Nature Review)

In Gods We Trust is by far the best exploration so far of the evolutionary basis of religious behavior. (James Fox, Prof of Anthropology, Stanford University)

Scott Atran, a cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, presents in this volume a rich, nuanced cognitive-evolutionary account of religion... From this vantage, religion is not doctrine, or institutions, or even faith. Religion ensues from the ordinary workings of the human mind as it deals with emotionally compelling problems of human existence, such as birth, aging, death, unforeseen calamities, and love... I have little but praise for this marvelous book... It does not take long to realize that one is dealing with a formidable mind; Atran is not only a fine writer, his breadth of knowledge and intellectual depth are nothing short of inspiring. This book is one to read slowly and savor. Keep a post-it pad handy, to mark the pages: the scope of this book is so wide-ranging that whatever your research interest in evolutionary psychology, it is bound to be touched upon at some point in these 400 pages of informative analysis. (Human Nature Review)

Biographie de l'auteur :

Scott Atran is director of research at the Institut Jean Nicod at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. He is also Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Psychology and Natural Resources and the Environment at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. A respected cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, his publications include Fondement de l'histoire naturelle, Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Towards an Anthropology of Science, and Folk Biology. He has done long-term fieldwork in the Middle East and has also written and experimented extensively on the ways scientists and ordinary people categorize and reason about nature. He currently directs an international, multidisciplinary project on the natural history of the Lowland Maya.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0195178033
• ISBN 13: 9780195178036
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 348