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Religion Is Not About God: How Spiritual Traditions Nurture Our Biological Nature and What To Expect When They Fail by Loyal Rue
The author, Loyal Rue, is a professor of philosophy and religion at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. His writing style in this book is easy to follow even when he was explaining a complex thought. The basic premise of the book is the idea that religion is not about God or Gods but about us. …
In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion by Scott Atran
Scott Atran is a respected cognitive anthropologist and a psychologist, so I new the book was going to look at religion from that point of view. The author deals with religion from the perspective that it comes from the ordinary workings of the human mind as it deals with emotionally compelling problems of human existence. …
A Short Look at Religion
Introduction: It is obvious to anyone who follows the news that religion has a huge impact on our world today. However, ask anyone to define religion and you will probably get a different answer from each person you ask. Each person could have their favorite definition, which they think is the correct one and sometimes, …
The Spiritual Dimension: Religion, Philosophy and Human Value by John Cottingham
The Spiritual Dimension‘s aim is to offer a new way of looking at the philosophy of religion. It brings together emotional and intellectual aspects of human experience and embraces practical as well as theoretical concerns. The book wants to show that a religious world view should be related to spiritual praxis and the search for …
Philosophy of Religion: A Contemporary Introduction by Keith Yandell
Philosophy of Religion is written by professor Keith E. Yandell, who is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. It is part of the Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy series. The series as a whole is aimed at students that have already done an introductory courses in philosophy. However, this book is very …
Religion: The Basics by Malory Nye
Malory Nye who is an Acting Principal and Professor of Multiculturalism at the Al-Maktoum Institute, in Scotland, wrote Religion: The Basics. He is the founder of a journal called “Culture and Religion” and has written many books on religion and multiculturalism. There seems to be three major aims to the book. The first is …
Religion Explained by Pascal Boyer
Religion Explained uses cognitive psychology, anthropology, linguistics, and evolutionary biology to explain to us the evolutionary origins of religious thought. The interesting approach used by the author is unique. He describes how the brain receives and organizes information to explain to us how religious thoughts came to be. He believes that the explanation for religious …
Introducing Anthropology of Religion: Culture to the Ultimate by Jack David Eller
Introducing Anthropology of Religion is a book (or a textbook depending on how you see it) about the anthropology of religion. The book studies religions from all over the world, both known and unknown, using six themes. The themes are: diversity between religion, diversity within religion, integrating religions with its surrounding culture, the fact that …
