Books That Explain Why There is Religion
Minds and Gods: The Cognitive Foundations of Religion, by Todd Tremlin.
Religion Explained, by Pascal Boyer.
In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion, by Scott Atran.
The Faith Instinct, by Nicholas Wade.
Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief, by Andrew Newberg, Eugene D'Aquili, and Vince Rause.
The Belief Instinct, by Jesse Bering.
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief, by Lewis Wolpert.
Valerie Tarico's chapter in The Christian Delusion is an excellent introduction to this whole subject.
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