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Religious Origins

by Eduardo Mendieta | November 17, 2012 | Fall 2012

Eduardo Mendieta reviews the book Religion in Human Evolution. He reflects on Robert Bellah’s massive book on the role of religion in human evolution up to the Axial Period, and the emergence of second order cognitive and moral reflexivity.

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Eduardo Mendieta is in the philosophy department at Stony Brook University. He is the co-editor with Jonathan VanAntwerpen of The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere.

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