Skip to main content

/ SerPolUS_IDES/ Group items tagged Nicholas Wade

Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle

Book Review - 'The Faith Instinct - How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures,' by Nichol... - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...Shulevitz-t.html

Nicholas Wade Judith Shulevitz book-review God gene evolutionary ethics religion and evolution nytimes

shared by Frederick Smith on 11 Feb 10 - Cached

Frederick Smith on 11 Feb 10

Review by Judith Shulevitz (author of "The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time"): Wade asserts "the God gene" & its evolutionary function - "to bind human beings into cooperative groups," making altruism, group (over self-) interest & solidarity a matter of conscience (with the gods as enforcers). Shulevitz's criticism is "that he has under-ambitiously portrayed religion as less encompassing and consequential than it is."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Review by Judith Shulevitz (author of "The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time"): Wade asserts "the God gene" & its evolutionary function - "to bind human beings into cooperative groups," making altruism, group (over self-) interest & solidarity a matter of conscience (with the gods as enforcers). Shulevitz's criticism is "that he has under-ambitiously portrayed religion as less encompassing and consequential than it is." </div>

...

Cancel

1 - 1 of 1

Showing 20▼ items per page

Related searches