How Religion Evolved - And Why It Endures - Robin Dunbar
Language: EnglishKeywords:
Evolutionary Psychology
History
Religion
Shared by:Guest
Written by
Read by John Sackville
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged
When did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion’s evolutionary purpose? And in our increasingly secular world, why has it endured?
Every society in the history of humanity has lived with religion. In How Religion Evolved, evolutionary psychologist Professor Robin Dunbar tracks its origins back to what he terms the ‘mystical stance’ - the aspect of human psychology that predisposes us to believe in a transcendent world, and which makes an encounter with the spiritual possible. As he explores world religions and their many derivatives, as well as religions of experience practised by hunter-gatherer societies since time immemorial, Dunbar argues that this instinct is not a peculiar human quirk, an aberration on our otherwise efficient evolutionary journey. Rather, religion confers an advantage: it can benefit our individual health and wellbeing, but, more importantly, it fosters social bonding at large scale, helping hold fractious societies together. Dunbar suggests these dimensions might provide the basis for an overarching theory for why and how humans are religious, and so help unify the myriad strands that currently populate this field.
Drawing on path-breaking research, clinical case studies and fieldwork from around the globe, as well as stories of charismatic cult leaders, mysterious sects and lost faiths, How Religion Evolved offers a fascinating and far-reaching analysis of this quintessentially human impulse - to believe.
| Announce URL: | http://tracker.files.fm:6969/announce |
| This Torrent also has several backup trackers | |
| Tracker: | http://tracker.files.fm:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | http://open.acgnxtracker.com:80/announce |
| Tracker: | http://tracker2.dler.org:80/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://exodus.desync.com:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://open.stealth.si:80/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://opentor.org:2710/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.dler.org:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.tiny-vps.com:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.torrent.eu.org:451/announce |
| Tracker: | http://googer.cc:1337/announce |
| Creation Date: | Wed, 13 Apr 2022 11:37:13 +0200 |
| This is a Multifile Torrent | |
| How Religion Evolved - And Why it Endures.m4b 455.62 MBs | |
| File Size: | 455.62 MBs |
| Piece Size: | 256 KBs |
| Comment: | Updated by AudioBook Bay |
| Info Hash: | 460ad273ad457fe831a1f3ba7013e8c5a3e0fefe |
| Torrent Download | Torrent Free Downloads |
| Tips | Sometimes the torrent health info isn’t accurate, so you can download the file and check it out or try the following downloads. |
| Direct Download | Start Direct Download |
| Tips | You could try out alternative bittorrent clients. |
| Secured Download | Download Files Now |
| Ad |
|
This post has 8 comments with rating of 4/5
April 13th, 2022
It is an enormously successful evolutionary adaptation. The principle of causation is ever a key factor.
April 13th, 2022
At least one thing old Karl got right: it’s opiate for the masses.
April 13th, 2022
At least one thing old Karl got right: it’s *piate for the masses.
April 13th, 2022
Religion has remained with us because it supposedly confers a survival advantage, such as group cohesion… buuuut, it might also have some nasty side-effects.
April 14th, 2022
Reductionism alert, ssafe, ol’ chappe. Doesn’t even begin to explain the complexity of the phenomenon. Although reductionism does remain stubbornly with us. Multiplicity of factors involved. U may also find that life itself has some nasty side effects. And, like relig, many sublime effects too (hint: life is beautiful).
To the punch-drunk Viking: I think you’ll find that opium is the opium of the masses. Or lonkero.
April 16th, 2022
Thank you
April 17th, 2022
Never gets into the origin of life itself, of course.
April 17th, 2022
@chrisxiii
FFS, please stop being a parrot and repeating the same question wherever you comment. We get it: you are a christian, you believe that instead of the big bang, God said let there be planets and there were planets. (the beginning of the universe and other galaxies never explained but hey, there is the magic apple and the talking snake, so let’s be rational).
Go after science and you’ll see how fast life appeared after the last meteor shower cca 3 billion BCE. Anything, but please STFU. Thank you.
Add a comment (please log in before commenting)