Description

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This book examines why individuals and communities invest heavily in their religious life through multi-disciplinary perspectives. It pursues philosophical, psychological, deep time historical and adaptive answers to this question. This volume was originally published as a special issue of Religion, Brain & Behavior.

About the Author

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Carl Brusse holds postdoctoral appointments at The Australian National University (School of Philosophy) and The University of Sydney (Department of Philosophy and The Charles Perkins Centre), Australia. He works on game theoretic and evolutionary explanation in the human sciences.Kim Sterelny is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Australia. He is the author of The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique (2012) and The Pleistocene Social Contract: Culture and Cooperation in Human Evolution (2021) among other books.