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Pascal Boyer
Religion Explained [EPUB ebook]

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Why are there religious beliefs in all cultures? Do they have features in common and why does religion persist in the face of science? Pascal Boyer shows how experimental findings in cognitive science, evolutionary biology and cultural anthropology are now providing precise answers to these general questions, and providing, for the first time, real answers to the question: Why do we believe?

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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9781407020877 ● Verlag Random House ● Erscheinungsjahr 2008 ● herunterladbar 6 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 2725366 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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