The God Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life
by:
Jesse Bering (author)
The God Instinct explores how people's everyday thoughts, behaviours and emotions betray an innate tendency to reason as though God were deeply invested in their public lives and secret affairs.
The God Instinct explores how people's everyday thoughts, behaviours and emotions betray an innate tendency to reason as though God were deeply invested in their public lives and secret affairs.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781857885606 (1857885600)
Publish date: November 1st 2010
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Pages no: 252
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Science,
Biology,
Religion,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Spirituality,
Psychology,
Neuroscience,
Social Science,
Atheism
The Belief Instinct is a compelling look at the biological origins of such things as belief in God, the afterlife, and divine punishment. Many of these things, the author argues, are due to our evolution of a "theory of mind," which allows us to assume that others think and feel as we do and put our...
The Belief Instinct is pleasurable in that it's wholly unlike books by the sort of atheists who doggedly pursue the conversion of their readers to their way of thinking. Bering is methodical and scientific in building his argument. He's also very personable and quite funny. [full review]
12 years ago
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