Why Mankind Has Needed Religion Whereas Bees Have Not: Religious prescriptions provide the building blocks for the cultural evolution of distinct human moral communities - Couverture souple

Lachmann, Peter

 
9781786236807: Why Mankind Has Needed Religion Whereas Bees Have Not: Religious prescriptions provide the building blocks for the cultural evolution of distinct human moral communities
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 178623680X ISBN 13 : 9781786236807
Editeur : Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

With a Foreword by Rowan Williams - Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge Religions - broadly defined - are found in probably all human societies. This convinces even sceptics that religions must have an important function. The God(s) they worship, their creation myths and their beliefs about an afterlife are extremely variable. What they all share are prescriptions for behaviour concerning not only ethics but such matters as diet, hygiene and dress. The origin of these prescriptions is unknown but their persistence can be explained by their promoting resistance to infectious disease Religious prescriptions provide the building blocks for the cultural evolution of distinct human moral communities. This explains their universality and their mutual intolerance. The differences in behaviour between bee colonies are however genetically determined so that bees have no need for religion!

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Éditeur
Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
178623680X
ISBN 13 
9781786236807
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
102
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