{"id":3153,"date":"2024-07-28T13:35:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T13:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2025-04-08T04:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:45:03","slug":"an-atheists-history-of-belief-understanding-our-most-extraordinary-invention-by-matthew-kneale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/an-atheists-history-of-belief-understanding-our-most-extraordinary-invention-by-matthew-kneale\/","title":{"rendered":"An Atheist\u2019s History of Belief: Understanding Our Most Extraordinary Invention by Matthew Kneale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“An Atheist\u2019s History of Belief: Understanding Our Most Extraordinary Invention”<\/strong> by Matthew Kneale examines the evolution of religious beliefs from an atheist perspective. Kneale explores how and why humans have developed various religious systems throughout history, analyzing the social, psychological, and cultural factors that have shaped belief systems. The book provides a historical overview of religious development and offers insights into the human propensity for creating and sustaining religious ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Evolution of Belief<\/strong>: Traces the development of religious beliefs over time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
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  3. Psychological Perspectives<\/strong>: Examines the psychological reasons behind belief.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Social Influences<\/strong>: Discusses the role of social structures in shaping religion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Human Propensity for Religion<\/strong>: Explores why humans are inclined to create religious systems.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    “An Atheist\u2019s History of Belief: Understanding Our Most Extraordinary Invention” by Matthew Kneale examines the evolution of religious beliefs from an atheist perspective. Kneale explores how and why humans have developed various religious systems throughout history, analyzing the social, psychological, and cultural factors that have shaped belief systems. The book provides a historical overview of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,851],"tags":[51,218,180,219,59,156,62,56,52,179],"class_list":["post-3153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthologies","category-books","tag-atheism","tag-belief-systems","tag-cultural-factors","tag-evolution-of-belief","tag-history","tag-human-behavior","tag-psychology","tag-rationalism","tag-religion","tag-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4111,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions\/4111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}