Why Gods Persist: A Scientific Approach to Religion - Hardcover

Hinde, Robert A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415208254 ISBN 13: 9780415208253

Publisher: Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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About the Author

Robert A. Hinde is a Professor Emeritus and former Master of St. John’s College, Cambridge. He is also the British chairman of the Pugwash Group. His work in zoology, psychology and anthropology has been widely recognised; amongst his many distinctions he is a Fellow of the Royal Society, an honorary Fellow of the British Academy, Foreign Hon. Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and Hon. Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

Review

Hinde's book is commendable for its bringing together a vast amount of psychological and sociological accounts of religious life.
–Contemporary Psychology APA Review of Books

[T]his book has much to commend it to the thoughtful reader.....
–Podium

Hinde's book is an informed, scholarly, and insightful analysis of the emergence of various religions in different contexts. ...valuable to those who are interested in religion as a social/cultural phenomenon.
–Choice

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415208254
• ISBN 13: 9780415208253
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304