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Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being

byAgustín Fuentes

A wide-ranging argument by a renowned anthropologist that the capacity to believe is what makes us human Why are so many humans religious? The argument in Why We Believe develops through scientific research, fieldwork, and carefully chosen case studies, attending to both broad patterns and the revealing details that resist them. That perspective connects the evolution and the human way of being to larger questions in psychology and science, without losing sight of the people living through the consequences. Rather than reducing its subject to a single lesson, Why We Believe preserves its contradictions and shows why they remain important.

Publisher

Yale University Press

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

280

ISBN

9780300243994