Religion in Human Evolution : : From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age / / Robert N. Bellah.
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 g...
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