TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bering,Jesse
TI  - The belief instinct: the psychology of souls, destiny, and the meaning of life 
SN  - 9780393072990 (hardcover)
AV  - BF51 .B47 2011
U1  - 200.1/9 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Spirituality
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Psychology and religion
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Religious aspects
N1  - Originally published in Great Britain under the title: The God instinct; Includes bibliographical references and index; The history of an illusion -- A life without purpose -- Signs, signs, everywhere signs -- Curiously immortal -- When God throws people off bridges -- God as adaptive illusion -- And then you die
N2  - An evolutionary psychologist examines humans' belief in God and argues that it evolved in the species as an "adaptive illusion" that originally had an evolutionary purpose, now outdated, that ensured the survival of the human race
ER  -