Engaging recent developments within the bio-cultural study of religion, Shults unveils the evolved cognitive and coalitional mechanisms by which god-conceptions are engendered in minds and nurtured in societies. He discovers and attempts to liberate a radically atheist trajectory that has long been suppressed within the discipline of theology.

Autorentext
F. LeRon Shults is professor of theology and philosophy at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway and the author or editor of twelve other books, including his recent Iconoclastic Theology: Gilles Deleuze and the Secretion of Atheism. Shults is also a senior research fellow at the Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion in Boston, USA.

Inhalt

1. The Gods are Born and we Have Borne Them 2. Anthropomorphic Promiscuity and Sociographic Prudery 3. The Scientific Discipline of Theology 4. Arguing about Axiological Engagement 5. Religious Family Systems 6. Letting Gods Go: Naturalism and Secularism 7. Theology after 'the Birth of God'