faith instinct - how religion evolved and why it endures
by wade, nicholas
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 1594202281
- ISBN 13
- 9781594202285
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Synopsis
A New York Times science reporter makes a startling new case that religion has an evolutionary basis. For the last 50,000 years, and probably much longer, people have practiced religion. Yet little attention has been given to the question of whether this universal human behavior might have been implanted in human nature. In this original and thought-provoking work, Nicholas Wade traces how religion grew to be so essential to early societies in their struggle for survival, how an instinct for faith became hardwired into human nature, and how it provided an impetus for law and government. The Faith Instinct offers an objective and nonpolemical exploration of humanity's quest for spiritual transcendence.
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- Bookseller
- Sixth Chamber Used Books/Fox Den Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1043807
- Title
- faith instinct - how religion evolved and why it endures
- Author
- wade, nicholas
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1594202281
- ISBN 13
- 9781594202285
- Publisher
- Penguin Press Hc, The
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2009-11
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