A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An ABC Australia Best Book on Religion and Ethics of the Year Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Sec

J.L. Schellenberg offers a path to a new kind of religious outlook. Reflection on our early stage in the evolutionary process leads to skepticism about religion

The scientific study of religion has made significant advances in recent decades, explaining how the mind produces religious ideas, the motivations underlying r

The author of How Animals Grieve “contends that religion . . . is a consequence of primate evolution” in this “brilliant book” (Booklist, starred review

"For as long as history has been with us, religion has been a feature of human life. There is no known culture for which we have an ethnographic or an archaeolo