Loyal D. Rue

Author of Religion Is Not About God: How Spiritual Traditions Nurture Our Biological Nature And What to Expect When They Fail

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Loyal Rue is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Luther College. He is the author of Everybody's Story: Wising Up to the Epic of Evolution, also published by SUNY Press, and Religion Is Not about God: How Spiritual Traditions Nurture Our Biological Nature and What to Expect When They Fail.

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Works by Loyal D. Rue

By the Grace of Guile: The Role of Deception in Natural History and Human Affairs (1994) 34 copies

Everybody's Story: Wising Up to the Epic of Evolution (1999) 26 copies

Nature is Enough: Religious Naturalism and the Meaning of Life (2011) 16 copies

Amythia: Crisis in the Natural History of Western Culture (1989) 11 copies

The Old WC (2017) 1 copy

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Gender: male
Places of residence: Decorah, Iowa, USA

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Religion Is Not About God: How Spiritual Traditions… by Loyal Rue

American novelist and professor of philosophy Rebecca Newberger Goldstein has chosen to discuss Loyal Rue’s Religion Is Not about God on FiveBooks as one of the top five on her subject - Reason and its Limitations, saying that:

“…I like this book’s title, which is itself a proposition. The explanatory model Rue employs comes from evolutionary psychology. He is trying to account for what, if any, adaptive purpose religion has. Why does almost every society, as soon as it gets to a certain level of complexity, construct some sort of religious mythology, one which merges both cosmology and morality? …”

The full interview is available here: http://five-books.com/interviews/rebecca-goldstein… (more)

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