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The God Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life

by Jesse Bering
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Exploring the psychological origins of religious belief.

If you're intrigued by the interplay between psychology and spirituality, "The God Instinct" could offer you a compelling read. Jesse Bering delves into how our brains may be hardwired to seek a higher power, blending science with existential questions. You might find this book a fascinating journey through the cognitive underpinnings of our most profound beliefs.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9781857885606
Authors: Jesse Bering
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Date of Publication: 2010-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Sociology, Religion, Philosophy, Science
Related Topics: Atheism, Spirituality, Neuroscience, Evolution, Psychology
Goodreads rating: 4.0
(rated by 1308 readers)

Description

The God Instinct explores how people's everyday thoughts, behaviors, and emotions betray an innate tendency to reason as though God were deeply invested in their public lives and secret affairs. In this entertaining and thought-provoking book, Jesse Bering unravels the evolutionary mystery of why we grapple for meaning, purpose, and destiny in life. He argues that God is not merely an idea to be entertained or discarded based on the evidence. Nor is God a cultural invention, an existential band-aid, an opiate of the masses. Instead, Bering proposes, God is a way of thinking. That strangely sticky sense that some intentional agent willfully created us as individuals, wants us to behave in particular ways, observes and knows about our otherwise private actions, communicates messages to us in code through natural events, and intends to meet us after we die would also have been felt by our ancestors and led to their behaving in ways that favored their reputations (and thus saved their genes).
 

Exploring the psychological origins of religious belief.

If you're intrigued by the interplay between psychology and spirituality, "The God Instinct" could offer you a compelling read. Jesse Bering delves into how our brains may be hardwired to seek a higher power, blending science with existential questions. You might find this book a fascinating journey through the cognitive underpinnings of our most profound beliefs.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.