Breaking the Spell
Author(s): Daniel C Dennett
For all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask whyand howit has shaped so many lives so strongly. Is religion a product of blind evolutionary instinct or rational choice? Is it truly the best way to live a moral life? Ranging through biology, history, and psychology, Daniel C. Dennett charts religions evolution from wild folk belief to domesticated dogma. Not an antireligious screed but an unblinking look beneath the veil of orthodoxy, "Breaking the Spell" will be read and debated by believers and skeptics alike.
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How would a visitor from Mars dispassionately explain human religion? . . . My guess is that the result would be something like this crystal-clear, constantly engaging, and enjoyable new book. (Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prizeawinning author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and "Collapse"
General Fields
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- : 9010000000000051558
- : 9010000000000051558
- : 0.426
- : 01 February 2007
- : 212mm X 145mm X 26mm
- : United States
- : books
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- : Daniel C Dennett
- : Paperback / softback
- : 200
- : 448
