{"product_id":"the-fracture-of-an-illusion-pascal-boyer-9783525569405","title":"The Fracture of an Illusion: Science and the Dissolution of Religion. Frankfurt Templeton Lectures 2008","description":"Pascal Boyer argues that religion is largely an illusion. The anthropologist traces religion's cognitive and evolutionary aspects. By religion he means a kind of existential and cognitive package that includes views about supernatural agency (gods), notions of morality, particular rituals and sometimes particular experiences, as well as membership in a particular community of believers. The package, however, does not really exist as such. Notions of supernatural agents, of morality, of ethnic identity, or ritual requirements and other experience, all appear in human minds independently. This implies that there is no such thing as a conflict between science and religion. Boyer takes the reader onto a journey through science and the dissolution of religion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pascal Boyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3525569408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783525569405\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vandenhoeck \u0026amp; Ruprecht\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/23\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2010 pg. 15","brand":"Pascal Boyer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437330149631,"sku":"9783525569405","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b1eb3462-dfdf-41c1-8e4b-4eeda5bd2596.jpg?v=1777161084","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-fracture-of-an-illusion-pascal-boyer-9783525569405","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}