{"product_id":"gods-brain-paperback","title":"God's Brain - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLionel Tiger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael McGuire\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking a perspective rooted in evolutionary biology with a focus on brain science, two distinguished authors radically alter the fractious debate on the existence of God and the nature of religion.Two distinguished authors, renowned anthropologist Lionel Tiger and pioneering neuroscientist Michael McGuire, elucidate the perennial questions about religion: What is its purpose? How did it arise? What is its source? Why does every known culture have some form of it?Their answer is deceptively simple, yet at the same time highly complex: The brain creates religion and its varied concepts of God, and then in turn feeds on its creation to satisfy innate neurological and associated social needs.Brain science reveals that humans and other primates alike are afflicted by unavoidable sources of stress that the authors describe as \"brainpain.\" To cope with this affliction people seek to \"brainsoothe.\" We humans use religion and its social structures to induce brainsoothing as a relief for innate anxiety. How we do this is the subject of this groundbreaking book.In a concise, lively, accessible, and witty style, the authors combine zoom-lens vignettes of religious practices with discussions of the latest research on religion's neurological effects on the brain. Among other topics, they consider religion's role in providing positive socialization, its seeming obsession with regulating sex, the common biological scaffolding between nonhuman primates and humans and how this affects religion, and evidence that the palliative effects of religion on brain chemistry are not matched by nonreligious remedies.In a new preface to the paperback edition, Lionel Tiger discusses the paradoxical effects of religion-on the one hand, producing masterpieces of art and architecture and, on the other, fueling violence throughout history and into the present. This fascinating book provides key insights into the complexities of our brain and the role of religion, perhaps its most remarkable creation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLionel Tiger \u003c\/b\u003e(New York, NY) is the bestselling author of ten books, including\u003ci\u003e Men in Groups, The Imperial Animal\u003c\/i\u003e (with Robin Fox), \u003ci\u003eThe Pursuit of Pleasure, Optimism: The Biology of Hope\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Decline of Males.\u003c\/i\u003e His articles have appeared in the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Harvard Business Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBrain and Behavioral Science\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at Rutgers University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael McGuire, MD \u003c\/b\u003e(1929-2016), was the author or editor of ten books, including \u003ci\u003eBelieving: The Neuroscience of Fantasies, Fears, and Convictions \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Darwinian Psychiatry\u003c\/i\u003e (with A. Troisi). He was the president of the Biomedical Research Foundation, director of the Bradshaw Foundation and the Gruter Institute of Law and Behavior, and a trustee of the International Society of Human Ethology. Formerly, he had been a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles and editor of \u003ci\u003eEthology and Sociobiology\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 12, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42696759279679,"sku":"9781633883376","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/887ca2aca64b6c5f3b0380e8f6eb9f3f.webp?v=1765007221","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/gods-brain-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}