How Religion Evolved : Explaining the Living Dead, Talking Idols, and Mesmerizing Monuments

Name: How Religion Evolved : Explaining the Living Dead, Talking Idols, and Mesmerizing Monuments
Brand: Taylor & Francis Inc

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Contents\n\nForeword by Marcel Kuijsten\n\nAcknowledgments\n\nPrologue: Chasing Ghosts in Tokyo\n\nPart I: The World According to the Gods\n\n1 The Failure of Science to Explain Religion\n\n2 Why the Gods Began to Speak\n\n3 Divine Voices and Visions as Social Adaptation\n\nPart II: When the Gods Spoke and Walked among Us\n\n4 The Living Dead: Explaining Entombment and Ancestor Worship\n\n5 Towns as the Domain of the Gods\n\n6 Temples as Relay Stations: Transmitting Divine Commands\n\n7 Talking Idols: Tools of Divine Control\n\n8 Mortuary Monuments: How the Gods Awed Their Followers\n\n9 Heavenly Ambassadors: God\u2013Kings and Sacred Rulers\n\n10 Ancient Civilizations as God-Governed\n\n11 Mesoamerica: Theocentric Civilizations of the New World\n\n12 Trimming the Theological Tree: Monotheism as Adaptation\n\n13 Angels, Divine Messengers, and Swarms of Demons\n\nPart III: When the Gods Fell Silent\n\n14 Prayers, Possessions, and Prophecies: Conjuring Up the Missing Gods\n\n15 The Godx