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It offers what is frequently seen as a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that goes deep into evolution, especially but not exclusively cultural evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Of Bellah's brilliance there can be no doubt. The sheer amount this man knows about religion is otherworldly. Bellah stands in the tradition of such stalwarts of the sociological imagination as Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. Only one word is appropriate to characterize this book's subject as well as its substance, and that is 'magisterial.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\n—Alan Wolfe, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReligion in Human Evolution\u003c\/i\u003e is a magnum opus founded on careful research and immersed in the 'reflective judgment' of one of our best thinkers and writers.\u003cbr\u003e\n—Richard L. 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