Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

By Robert N. Bellah

Book Overview

This ambitious book probes our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have imagined were worth living. Bellah's theory goes deep into cultural and genetic evolution to identify a range of capacities (communal dancing, storytelling, theorizing) whose emergence made religious development possible in the first millennium BCE.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674061438
• ISBN13: 9780674061439
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 782 Pages
• Weight: 2.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.8" x 9.4"