Sacrificial agape and group selection in contemporary American christianity

Zygon

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 541-556

  Tillman, J Jeffrey ^a,b  

^a Wayland Baptist University   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agape; Altruism; Christian love; Evolutionary ethics group selection; Protestant ethics; Sacrifice; Sociobiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849130541     PISSN: 05912385     EISSN: 14679744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2008.00937.x     Document Type: Article

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