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Ideologiernas död har förutspåtts ett flertal gånger under åren, men gång på gång har vi också sett gamla ideologier återvända under nya beteckningar. I denna bok behandlar vi både …

The term "folkbiology" refers to people's everyday understanding of the biological world-how they perceive, categorize, and reason about living kinds. The study of folkbiology not …

Scott Atran has spent years talking to terrorists - from Gaza and Afghanistan, to Indonesia and Europe. Here he argues persuasively that to understand religious violence we need to …

This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, …

Comment expliquer le poids culturel de la religion à travers l’histoire ? Pourquoi les idées surnaturelles sont-elles aussi répandues dans toutes les cultures ? Que nous apprennent …

What is it about human nature that makes our species capable of thinking scientifically? Inspired by the debate he set up between Noam Chomsky and Jean Piaget, Scott Atran traces …

Talking to the Enemy is an intellectually and personally courageous exploration of one of the most contentious issues of modern times. Scott Atran has spent years talking to …

An overview of the latest interdisciplinary research on human morality, capturing moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational …

This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, …

An analysis of the cognitive consequences of diminished contact with nature examines the relationship between how people think about the natural world and how they act on it, and …

Atran explores the way terrorists think of themselves and teaches us, at last, intelligent ways to think about terrorists.Christopher Dickey, Newsweek Middle East Editor and author …