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The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures

The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures - Paperback

by Nicholas Wade
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Availability:In StockContributor:Nicholas WadeAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2010-09-28Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143118190ISBN-10:143118196UPC:9780143118190Book Category:Religion, Social Science, ScienceBook Subcategory:Religion & Science, Sociology of Religion, Life SciencesBook Topic:EvolutionSize:8.39 x 5.53 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC1D9Q2CZV
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143118190ISBN-10:143118196UPC:9780143118190Book Category:Religion, Social Science, ScienceBook Subcategory:Religion & Science, Sociology of Religion, Life SciencesBook Topic:EvolutionSize:8.39 x 5.53 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC1D9Q2CZV
Nicholas Wade received a BA in natural sciences from King's College, Cambridge. He was the deputy editor of Nature magazine in London and then became that journal's Washington correspondent. He joined Science magazine in Washington as a reporter and later moved to The New York Times, where he has been an editorial writer, concentrating on issues of defense, space, science, medicine, technology, genetics, molecular biology, the environment, and public policy, a science reporter, and a science editor.
Publisher: Penguin Books

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