{"product_id":"9780674975347","title":"Religion in Human Evolution : From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age by Robert N. Bellah","description":"A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An ABC Australia Best Book on Religion and Ethics of the Year Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological AssociationReligion in Human Evolution  is a work of extraordinary ambition-a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of  our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings  have most often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently  seen as a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that goes deep  into evolution, especially but not exclusively cultural evolution.   \"Of  Bellah's brilliance there can be no doubt. The sheer amount this man  knows about religion is otherworldly.Bellah stands in the tradition of  such stalwarts of the sociological imagination as Emile Durkheim and Max  Weber. Only one word is appropriate to characterize this book's subject  as well as its substance, and that is `magisterial.'\"-Alan Wolfe, New York Times Book Review\"Religion in Human Evolution  is a magnum opus founded on careful research and immersed in the  `reflective judgment' of one of our best thinkers and writers.\"-Richard L. Wood, Commonweal\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56293048287605,"sku":"9780674975347","price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780674975347.jpg?v=1762754078","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780674975347","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}