The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and why it Endures

Nicholas Wade

Penguin Press, 2009 - Religion - 310 pages

The nature of religion -- The moral instinct -- The evolution of religious behavior -- Music, dance, and trance -- Ancestral religion -- The transformation -- The tree of religion -- Morality, trade, and trust -- The ecology of religion -- Religion and warfare -- Religion and nation -- The future of religion.

About the author

Nicholas Wade received a BA in natural sciences from King’s College, Cambridge. He was the deputy editor of Nature magazine in London and then became that journal’s Washington correspondent. He joined Science magazine in Washington as a reporter and later moved to The New York Times, where he has been an editorial writer, concentrating on issues of defense, space, science, medicine, technology, genetics, molecular biology, the environment, and public policy, a science reporter, and a science editor.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and why it Endures
• Author: Nicholas Wade
• Publisher: Penguin Press, 2009
• ISBN: 1594202281, 9781594202285
• Length: 310 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Philosophy; Religion / Religion & Science; Science / Life Sciences / Evolution; Social Science / Sociology of Religion