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Book Openers: Robert Bellah on Religion and Evolution

September 12, 2011 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

From Harvard University Press, an intriguing book by noted sociologist Robert Bellah entitled Religion in Human Evolution. Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy. It’s 600 pages; that should keep me busy. It did Bellah. The book was more than a decade in the making, I hear.  Almost as long as it’s taking me to get Finding Holy off my desk.

For more about Bellah’s book, check out this Atlantic Monthly piece.

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