Download or read book Religion Explained written by Pascal Boyer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-12-26 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are there religious beliefs in all cultures? Do they have features in common and why does religion persist in the face of science? Pascal Boyer shows how experimental findings in cognitive science, evolutionary biology and cultural anthropology are now providing precise answers to these general questions, and providing, for the first time, real answers to the question: Why do we believe?