The New Godless.
Part of a special section on religion. Daniel Dennett, a professor at Tufts University, Medford, massachusetts, is currently in Great Britain promoting his new book, Breaking the Spell: religion as a natural phenomenon. The book develops Dennett's idea that religion has evolved as a cultural repl...
| Publicado en: | New Statesman Vol. 135; pp. 28 - 31 |
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New Statesman Ltd.
April 10 2006
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