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- catalog abstract ""Recent polls report that 96% of Americans believe in God. Why is this? Why, despite the rise of science, technology, and secular education, are people turning to religion in greater numbers than ever before? Why do people believe in God at all?" "These provocative questions lie at the heart of How We Believe, an illuminating new study of God, faith, and religion by best-selling author Michael Shermer. Offering fresh and often startling insights into age-old questions, Shermer's new book explores how and why humans put their faith in a higher power, even in the face of scientific skepticism. With characteristic logic and intellectual intensity, Book jacket."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11396533.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Recent polls report that 96% of Americans believe in God. Why is this? Why, despite the rise of science, technology, and secular education, are people turning to religion in greater numbers than ever before? Why do people believe in God at all?" "These provocative questions lie at the heart of How We Believe, an illuminating new study of God, faith, and religion by best-selling author Michael Shermer. Offering fresh and often startling insights into age-old questions, Shermer's new book explores how and why humans put their faith in a higher power, even in the face of scientific skepticism. With characteristic logic and intellectual intensity, Book jacket."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Preface : the God question : a moral dilemma for Dr. Laura -- Do you believe in God : the difference in our answers and the difference it makes -- Is God dead? : why Nietzsche and Time magazine were wrong -- The belief engine : how we believe -- Why people believe in God : an empirical study on a deep question -- O ye of little faith : proofs of God and what they tell us about faith -- In a mirror dimly, then face to face : faith, reason, and the relationship of religion and science -- The storytelling animal : myth, morality, and the evolution of religion -- God and the ghost dance : the eternal return of the messiah myth -- The fire that will cleanse : millennial meanings and the end of the world -- Glorious contingency : Gould's dangerous idea and the search for meaning in the age of science -- Appendix 1. What does it mean to study religion scientifically? : or, how social scientists "do" science -- Appendix 2. Why people believe in God -- the data and statistics.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 302 p. :".
- catalog identifier "071673561X (trade hardcover)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : W.H. Freeman,".
- catalog subject "215 21".
- catalog subject "BL240.2 .S545 1999".
- catalog subject "Faith and reason.".
- catalog subject "Religion and science.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface : the God question : a moral dilemma for Dr. Laura -- Do you believe in God : the difference in our answers and the difference it makes -- Is God dead? : why Nietzsche and Time magazine were wrong -- The belief engine : how we believe -- Why people believe in God : an empirical study on a deep question -- O ye of little faith : proofs of God and what they tell us about faith -- In a mirror dimly, then face to face : faith, reason, and the relationship of religion and science -- The storytelling animal : myth, morality, and the evolution of religion -- God and the ghost dance : the eternal return of the messiah myth -- The fire that will cleanse : millennial meanings and the end of the world -- Glorious contingency : Gould's dangerous idea and the search for meaning in the age of science -- Appendix 1. What does it mean to study religion scientifically? : or, how social scientists "do" science -- Appendix 2. Why people believe in God -- the data and statistics.".
- catalog title "How we believe : the search for God in an age of science / Michael Shermer.".
- catalog type "text".