TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bellah, Robert N 
TI  - RELIGION IN HUMAN EVOLUTION :  From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
SN  - 9780674975347
U1  - 200.89 
PY  - 2017////01/01
CY  - London
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Theological anthropology
KW  - Ethnology--Religious aspects
KW  - Human evolution--Religious aspects
KW  - Religion
KW  - Religions
KW  - Religion, Prehistoric
N1  - A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An ABC Australia Best Book on Religion and Ethics of the Year Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition--a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently seen as a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that goes deep into evolution, especially but not exclusively cultural evolution. "Of Bellah's brilliance there can be no doubt. The sheer amount this man knows about religion is otherworldly...Bellah stands in the tradition of such stalwarts of the sociological imagination as Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. Only one word is appropriate to characterize this book's subject as well as its substance, and that is 'magisterial.'" --Alan Wolfe, New York Times Book Review " Religion in Human Evolution is a magnum opus founded on careful research and immersed in the 'reflective judgment' of one of our best thinkers and writers." --Richard L. Wood, Commonweal; Contents

Prface
Acknowledgments

1.Religion and Reality
2.Religion and Evolution
3.Tribal Religion : The Production of Meaning
4.From Tribal to Archaic Religion : Meaning and Power
5.Archaic Religion : God and King
6.The Axial Age 1 : Ancient Greece
8.The Axial Age II : Ancient Greece
8.The Axial Age III : China in the Late First Millennium BCE
9.The Axial Age IV : Ancient India
10.Conclusion
Notes

Index
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