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Religion in human evolution : from the Paleolithic to the Axial Age / Robert N. Bellah.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.Description: xxvii, 746 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0674061438 (alk. paper)
  • 9780674061439 (alk. paper)
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Contents:
Religion and reality -- Religion and evolution -- Tribal religion : the production of meaning -- From tribal to archaic religion : meaning and power -- Archaic religion : God and king -- The Axial Age I : introduction and ancient Israel -- The Axial Age II : ancient Greece -- The Axial Age III : China in the late first millennium BCE -- The Axial Age IV : ancient India -- Conclusion.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This ambitious book probes our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have imagined were worth living. Bellah's theory goes deep into cultural and genetic evolution to identify a range of capacities (communal dancing, storytelling, theorizing) whose emergence made religious development possible in the first millennium BCE.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Religion and reality -- Religion and evolution -- Tribal religion : the production of meaning -- From tribal to archaic religion : meaning and power -- Archaic religion : God and king -- The Axial Age I : introduction and ancient Israel -- The Axial Age II : ancient Greece -- The Axial Age III : China in the late first millennium BCE -- The Axial Age IV : ancient India -- Conclusion.

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