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Darwin's cathedral : evolution, religion, and the nature of society / David Sloan Wilson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: v, 268 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226901343
  • 9780226901343
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.6
LOC classification:
  • BL60. W544 2002
Contents:
Introduction: Church as Organism -- Ch. 1. The View from Evolutionary Biology -- Ch. 2. The View from the Social Sciences -- Ch. 3. Calvanism: An Argument from Design -- Ch. 4. The Secular Utility of Religion: Historical Examples -- Ch. 5. The Secular Utility of Religion: The Modern Literature -- Ch. 6. Forgiveness as a Complex Adaptation -- Ch. 7. Unifying Systems.
Review: "From Calvinism in sixteenth-century Geneva to Balinese water temples, from hunter-gatherer societies to urban America, Wilson demonstrates how religions have enabled people to achieve by collective action what they never could do alone. He also includes a chapter considering forgiveness from an evolutionary perspective and concludes by discussing how all social organizations, including science, could benefit by incorporating elements of religion. Religious believers often compare their communities to single organisms and even to insect colonies. Astoundingly, Wilson shows that they might be literally correct. Intended for any reader, Darwin's Cathedral will change forever the way we view the relations among evolution, religion, and human society."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-258) and index.

Introduction: Church as Organism -- Ch. 1. The View from Evolutionary Biology -- Ch. 2. The View from the Social Sciences -- Ch. 3. Calvanism: An Argument from Design -- Ch. 4. The Secular Utility of Religion: Historical Examples -- Ch. 5. The Secular Utility of Religion: The Modern Literature -- Ch. 6. Forgiveness as a Complex Adaptation -- Ch. 7. Unifying Systems.

"From Calvinism in sixteenth-century Geneva to Balinese water temples, from hunter-gatherer societies to urban America, Wilson demonstrates how religions have enabled people to achieve by collective action what they never could do alone. He also includes a chapter considering forgiveness from an evolutionary perspective and concludes by discussing how all social organizations, including science, could benefit by incorporating elements of religion. Religious believers often compare their communities to single organisms and even to insect colonies. Astoundingly, Wilson shows that they might be literally correct. Intended for any reader, Darwin's Cathedral will change forever the way we view the relations among evolution, religion, and human society."--BOOK JACKET.

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