: The naturalness of religion and the unnaturalness of the world
\ Eric Dietrich.
New York, NY
: Columbia University Press
, [2015]
xvi, 191 p.
Index
Bibliography
The traveler to excellent beauty : invited rather than drafted -- Of spiritual journeys--What is a religion? -- The one billion -- The traveler's dark night of the soul -- Appendix to chapter 4. Statistics and probability meet job -- The biology of religion, the psychology of morality -- Justifying the ways of God to man .. via evolution -- Appendix to chapter 5. Yes, there really is such a thing as a coincidence -- Does God want you dead? -- Good without gods -- The journey in tatters -- Beyond atheism : the religion illusion -- The Janus-faced hominid -- The heretic's way : into the mysterious realm -- Some strangeness in the proportion -- Appendix to chapter 10. A compendium of mysteries -- The beauty of seeing more than we can understand -- Appendix to chapter 11. Welcome to the inscrutable -- The personal mystery and the impersonal God -- Summa mysteriologica.