Darwin's Cathedral

Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society
Author	David Sloan Wilson
Language	English
Genre	Non-fiction
Publication date	2002
ISBN	978-0-226-90135-0

Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society (ISBN 9780226901350) is a 2002 book by David Sloan Wilson which proposes that religion is a multi-level adaptation—i.e., a product of cultural evolution developed through multi-level selection.

Reception

The Journal of the American Academy of Religion called it a "welcome book" because "it unsettles everybody, evolutionary biologist and religious believer alike". Jared Diamond in the New York Review of Books called it a "thought-provoking book" which "will stimulate each reader to examine his or her personal view of religion's future".

References

↑ Andrew Brown, "'I wanted to show how niceness evolves'", The Guardian, July 24, 2003.
↑ Natalie Angier, "A Conversation with David Sloan Wilson; The Origin of Religions, From a Distinctly Darwinian View", The New York Times, December 24, 2002.
↑ "Review: Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society", Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2004) 72 (3): 800-802. doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh079
↑ Jared Diamond, "The Religious Success Story", The New York Review of Books, November 7, 2002

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[brown-1] Andrew Brown, "'I wanted to show how niceness evolves'", The Guardian, July 24, 2003.

[angier-2] Natalie Angier, "A Conversation with David Sloan Wilson; The Origin of Religions, From a Distinctly Darwinian View", The New York Times, December 24, 2002.

[jaar-3] "Review: Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society", Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2004) 72 (3): 800-802. doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh079

[diamond-4] Jared Diamond, "The Religious Success Story", The New York Review of Books, November 7, 2002