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The Attraction of Religion: A New Evolutionary Psychology of Religion (Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation) by D. Jason Slone, James A. Slyke, (editors) is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
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Religion is an evolutionary puzzle. It involves beliefs in counterfactual worlds and engagement in costly rituals. Yet religion is widespread across all human cultures and eras. This begs the question, why are so many people attracted to religion? <br><br>In <i>The Attraction of Religion</i>, essays by leading scholars in evolutionary psychology, anthropology, and religious studies demonstrate how religion may be related to evolutionary adaptations because religious commitments involve fitness-e
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Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- D. Jason Slone, James A. Slyke, (editors)
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bloomsbury Academic
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781472531728
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Psychology, Religion, Christian
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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