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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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (784 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 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 I: Introduction and Ancient Israel
- 7. 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