打破魔咒
Breaking the spell
Daniel C. Dennett · 初版 2006 年
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为什么值得读
- 将宗教视作历经数百年演化的文化模因
- 从演化适应与劫持机制解析信仰形成
- 结合宗教人类学将宗教视作自然现象
尽管有关宗教的著述汗牛充栋，但在本书面世之前，鲜有学者尝试用科学方法对其进行审视：去探究宗教为何以及如何如此深刻地塑造了无数人的生命。宗教究竟是盲目演化本能的产物，还是理性选择的结果？它真的是过上有道德生活的最佳途径吗？Daniel C. Dennett纵贯生物学、历史学与心理学，勾勒出宗教从“野性”民间信仰向“驯化”教条演化的全过程。《Breaking the Spell》绝非反宗教的檄文，而是对正统面纱之下的冷静凝视，必将引发信徒与
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探讨这个话题最好的书可能就是这本了：哲学家丹尼尔·C·丹尼特的《打破魔咒》（Breaking the Spell）。简而言之：宗教就是一种（演化了几个世纪的）meme。粗暴点说，你可以把宗教“感染”人类的过程，类比成一种让宿主……的病毒。
This may be the best book to read on the topic: Breaking the Spell by the philosopher Daniel C. Dennett. In short: religion is a meme (that has evolved over centuries). Crudely put, one can draw some parallels between religion "infecting" a human and a virus that makes…
那让我再推荐一本直接切中你对宗教人类学兴趣的书吧：丹·丹尼特的《打破魔咒：作为自然现象的宗教》（Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon）。
Well, let me recommend another book that directly addresses your interest in the anthropology of religion: Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Dan Dennett.
丹尼尔·丹尼特的《打破魔咒》（Breaking the Spell）绝对值得一读：https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_the_Spell:_Religion...
Daniel Dennett's "Breaking the Spell" is worth your time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_the_Spell:_Religion...
……能理解大家可能会被那场运动惹毛，但我只是觉得，你不可能在短短一代人时间里让宗教信仰人口暴跌30%，却还不招人烦的。[1] 我读过他的书《打破魔咒：作为自然现象的宗教》，觉得特别有意思，因为我以前从没想过宗教这个概念居然可以是一种进化适应（或者说“劫持”）特征。我觉得太神了，……
…understand that folks can be exasperated by that movement, I just don't think that you can experience a 30% drop in religious affiliation, in a single generation, without annoying people.[1] I read his book Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, which I found really interesting in that I'd never thought about religion as a concept being an evolutionary adaptive (or "hijacking") feature. I found it fascinating,…
……别忘了：《魔鬼的牧师》（A Devil's Chaplain）、《你生活在计算机模拟中吗》（Are You Living in a Computer Simulation）、《争辩上帝》（Arguing About Gods）、《无神论：反对上帝的理由》（Atheism - The Case Against God）、《无神论宣言：为无神论辩护》（Atheist Manifest - In Defense of Atheism）、《无神论宇宙》（Atheist Universe）、《圣经宇宙学》（Biblical Cosmology）、《打破魔咒：作为自然现象的宗教》（Breaking the Spell - Religion as a Natural Phenomenon）、《宗教信仰的认知与神经基础》（Cognitive and neural foundations of religious belief）、《达尔文的危险思想：演化与生命的意义》（Darwin's Dangerous Idea Evolution and the Meanings of Life）、《魔鬼出没的世界：科学，黑暗中的时代之光》（Demon Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark）……
…forget: A Devil's Chaplain Are You Living in a Computer Simulation Arguing About Gods Atheism - The Case Against God Atheist Manifest - In Defense of Atheism Atheist Universe Biblical Cosmology Breaking the Spell - Religion as a Natural Phenomenon Cognitive and neural foundations of religious belief Darwin's Dangerous Idea Evolution and the Meanings of Life Demon Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark…
……彻底改变了我看待自然选择原理的方式。还有《心智之我》（The Mind's I）这本选集，年轻时也把我震撼得不行。最后，他在《打破魔咒》里阐述的关于宗教/无神论的想法，帮我理清了自己脑子里原本乱成一团的思绪。
…completely transformed my way of looking at principle of natural selection. The Mind's I anthology was another one which blew me away as a youngster. Finally his ideas on religion/atheism as presented in Breaking the Spell contributed to making sense of unorganised thoughts I had.