Why We Need Religion

by Stephen T Asma and Stephen T. Asma

Book Overview

How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think. This claim, based on the premise that emotions are largely adaptive, serves as the organizing theme of Why We Need Religion. This book is a novel pathway in a well-trodden field of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Stephen Asma argues that, like art, religion has direct access to our emotional lives in ways that science does not. Yes, science can give us emotional feelings of wonder...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190469676
• ISBN13: 9780190469672
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"