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Scott Atran on Religion

born 1952 United States

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Religions are not adaptations and they have no evolutionary functions as such.

In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (2002)

Roughly, religion is a community's costly and hard-to-fake commitment to a counterfactual and counterintuitive world of supernatural agents who master people's existential anxieties, such as death and deception.

In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (2002)

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