(February 5, 2010 at 9:46 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Zagreus, I think perhaps you would benefit from the book: Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon - by Daniel Dennett which I am currently reading myself and so far, I have thoroughly enjoyed it.
Nice one, thanks. I just read the wiki page and it sounds exactly the type of thing I'm into. I'll try to pick up a copy as soon as I can.
If you're interested in origins of religion from an anthropological / archaeological view I can recommend a couple of books that the tutor of a stone age archaeology course I'm currently doing has suggested. I've not read them yet, but apparently they deal with the early social developments of humans.