{"product_id":"spiritual-evolution-9780767926584","title":"Spiritual Evolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn our current era of holy terror, passionate faith has come to seem like a present danger. Writers such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens have been happy to throw the baby out with the bathwater and declare that the danger is in religion itself. God, Hitchens writes, is not great.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut man, according to George E. Vaillant, M.D., \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e great. In \u003ci\u003eSpiritual Evolution\u003c\/i\u003e, Dr. Vaillant lays out a brilliant defense not of organized religion but of man’s inherent spirituality. Our spirituality, he shows, resides in our uniquely human brain design and in our innate capacity for emotions like love, hope, joy, forgiveness, and compassion, which are selected for by evolution and located in a different part of the brain than dogmatic religious belief. Evolution has made us spiritual creatures over time, he argues, and we are destined to become even more so. \u003ci\u003eSpiritual Evolution\u003c\/i\u003e makes the scientific case for spirituality as a positive force in human","brand":"Harmony\/Rodale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862941008215,"sku":"9780767926584","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780767926584.jpg?v=1759919151","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/spiritual-evolution-9780767926584","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}