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Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age to Modernity
- Project Leader(s)
Robert N. Bellah, Elliott Professor of Sociology Emeritus
University of California, Berkeley- Grantee(s)
Robert N. Bellah (Berkeley, California)
- Description
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This project supports Robert Bellah's research using the insights of biological and cultural evolution to understand the development of religion from as early as the Paleolithic Era, continuing through tribal, archaic, historic, and modern societies. Dr. Bellah's research focuses on the Axial Age, the first millennium BC, when religions developed around the world that transcended the archaic fusion of divinity and kingship, and declared the possibility that ordinary human beings could relate directly to a transcendent reality. The results of this research will be a book, tentatively titled Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age, published by the University of Chicago Press.
- Grant Amount:
- $52,500
- Start Date:
- May 2004
- End Date:
- April 2010
- Grant ID:
- 11248, 12501
Suite of 2 separate grants totaling $52,500