Breaking the Spell Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Breaking the Spell Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
- ISBN 13:
9780143038337
- ISBN 10:
0143038338
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 02/06/2007
- Publisher: Penguin Books
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Summary
Religion has elicited the best and worst in the human character, from selflessness to fanaticism. But until now few books have tried to investigate it in a scientific manner. Breaking the Spell is the daring and-inevitably-controversial exception. Ranging through biology, history, and psychology, Daniel C. Dennett asks: Is religion a product of blind evolutionary instinct or rational choice? Is it truly the best way to live a moral life? Is religion good for you? Not an antireligious screed but an unblinking look beneath the veil of orthodoxy, the result is essential reading for believers and skeptics alike. Book jacket.