Religiosity : A Propensity of the Human Phenotype

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Examines our propensity for religiousity and spiritual experience, exploring and comparing the evolution and concepts of religious systems throughout the world. Topics include patterns of religion, sects and cults, the Garden of Eden as allegory, physical and religious realms, and doctrinal disturbances. Material ranges widely, sometimes wildly, from popular science and psychology to scriptural interpretation, from the placebo effect to other dimensions of reality. General readers will want to approach this work with a good pair of wading boots. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.