Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society
Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society
Until recently, evolution and religion have been considered contending, irreconcilable theories of origin and existence. In this book, David Sloan Wilson takes the radical step of joining the two, but not in the usual fashion. The key, he argues, is to think of society as an organism-one in which morality and religion are adaptations that allow groups of humans to function as a coherent whole.
Customer Review: Not for the casual reader.
Wilson makes some great arguments and spends a lot of time supporting them in depth. Not for the casual reader.
Customer Review: evolutionism and functionalism
This is an interesting combination of the biological evolutionary theory of group selection with a revisited form of sociological functionalism. It is well argued and well written and it provides an alternative/ complement to individual and gene theories of natural selection, on the biological side, and to cognitive approaches to religion, on the anthropological side.
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