Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
by Dennett, Daniel C
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 067003472X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034727
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Synopsis
For all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask whyand howit has shaped so many lives so strongly. Is religion a product of blind evolutionary instinct or rational choice? Is it truly the best way to live a moral life? Ranging through biology, history, and psychology, Daniel C. Dennett charts religions evolution from wild folk belief to domesticated dogma. Not an antireligious screed but an unblinking look beneath the veil of orthodoxy, Breaking the Spell will be read and debated by believers and skeptics alike.
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- Bookseller
- Arches Bookhouse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2955
- Title
- Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
- Author
- Dennett, Daniel C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 067003472X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034727
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
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