Thomas M. Schmidt, Michael G. Parker, Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt, Wolfgang Achtner (Ed.), Pascal Boyer
The Fracture Of An Illusion
Science And The Dissolution Of Religion. Frankfurt Templeton Lectures 2008
Mit einem Nachwort von Wolfgang Achtner und Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt
1. Edition 2010
112 pages
ISBN 978-3-647-56940-6
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Religion, Theologie und Naturwissenschaft / Religion, Theology, and Natural Science (RThN) -
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Pascal Boyer argues that religion is largely an illusion. The anthropologist traces religion’s cognitive and evolutionary aspects. By »religion« he means a kind of existential and cognitive »package« that includes views about supernatural agency (gods), notions of morality, particular rituals and sometimes particular experiences, as well as membership in a particular community of believers. The package, however, does not really exist as such. Notions of supernatural agents, of morality, of ethnic identity, or ritual requirements and other experience, all appear in human minds independently. This implies that there is no such thing as a conflict between science and religion. Boyer takes the reader onto a journey through science and the dissolution of religion.
