Editions and Translations
Boyer's book is available in several English versions, as well as French, German, and Greek translations. Publishers have variously altered the Religion Explained title.
The American edition was published as:
- Religion Explained: The Human Instincts That Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors, hardcover, Basic Books, 2001, ISBN 0-465-00695-7.
- Religion Explained: The Human Instincts That Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors, paperback, Vintage, 2002, ISBN 0-09-928276-3.
- Religion Explained, paperback, Basic Books, 2002, ISBN 0-465-00696-5.
The British edition, which changed the subtitle from "The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought" to "The Human Instincts That Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors", was published as:
- Religion Explained: The Human Instincts That Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors, hardcover, William Heinemann Ltd, 2001, ISBN 0-465-00695-7.
- Religion Explained: The Human Instincts That Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors, paperback, Vintage, 2002, ISBN 0-09-928276-3.
Translated editions of Religion Explained are available in four European languages:
- French translation by Claude-Christine Farny as Et l'homme créa les dieux: Comment expliquer la religion, Paris: Robert Laffont, 2001, ISBN 978-2-221-09046-6.
- German translation by Ulrich Enderwitz, Monika Noll, and Rolf Schubert as Und Mensch schuf Gott, Klett-Cotta, 2004, ISBN 978-3-608-94032-9.
- Greek translation by Dimitris Xygalatas and Nikolas Roubekas as Και ο Άνθρωπος Έπλασε τους Θεούς, Thessaloniki: Vanias, 2008. ISBN 978-960-288-225-2.
- Italian translation by Donatella Sutera Sardo as "E l'uomo creò gli dei. Come spiegare la religione", Bologna, Odoya, 2010 ISBN 978-88-6288-073-2.
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Famous quotes containing the words editions and/or translations:
“The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul’s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! Occasions for stumbling are bound to come, but woe to the one by whom the stumbling block comes!”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 18:7.
Other translations use “temptations.”