"Brett Aubrey"  wrote in message
>
> Just curious... what does "religion in an evolutionary
perspective" mean,
> in the context of these books?  Are they trying to discuss how religion
> "evolved" - obviously in a non-Dawinian sense?
>
These sorts of books generally discuss three issues
1) The biological basis of religious belief.
2) The historical development of modern religions from primitive religion.
If you accept meme theory this could be a sort of Darwinian evolution, as
well as historical evolution.
3) How the theory of evolution impacts modern religions.

You cannot sensibly discuss 1 without 2, and anyone who didn't at least
allude to 3 in a book on the evolution of religion wouldn't be human.
>
> this would indeed seem OT, as there's no "sci.bio."
> component.)  (...or maybe I'm being too literal.)  Regards, Brett.
>
It's where biology merges into the human disciplines. The moderator has to
make a judgement call on where to draw the line, and also maybe where the
conversation gets too close to the evolution/creationist controversy, which
I guess is banned not because it is non-topical per se, but because it would
drown out all threads on other aspects of evolution.
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