And the man created the gods

And the man created the gods: How to explain the religion is a test of the Anthropologue Pascal Boyer which treats origins of the concepts religious by means of the evolutionary approach . Through the examination of the systems of inference - how they function and how they were formed by the evolution - Boyer explains how we have our religious concepts, and why the latter if were crowned success culturally. Boyer draws its arguments and its evidence of several disciplines, such as anthropology, cognitive sciences, linguistics and evolutionary biology. This reveals that an explanation naturalist of the religion is possible; moreover, this approach is necessary to make progress in the study of the religions.

Synopsis

This book was published in French by Robert Laffont then with the format delivers pocket by Gallimard. The edition of Folio comprises 480 pages (without the notes and index) and is structured in 9 chapters: does

  1. the question of the origins

  2. has what resemble the supernatural one?
  3. Machines with thoughts
  4. Why of the gods and the spirits?
  5. the religion, morals and misfortune
  6. the religion, deaths,
  7. death Why of the ritual ones?
  8. Doctrines, exclusion, violence
  9. Pourquoi does one believe?

Sources

P. Boyer, And the man created the gods: How to explain the religion , Robert Laffont, Paris, 2001

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