@article {1267,
	title = {DANIEL DENNETT, MEMES AND RELIGION: Reasons for the Historical Persistence of Religion},
	journal = {PENSAMIENTO},
	volume = {63},
	year = {2007},
	chapter = {815},
	abstract = {In the work which appeared in 2006 titled Breaking the Spell. Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Viking, New York, 2006) Daniel C. Dennett again explained
his ideas on memes and the theory of memes, by applying it to the study of religion from the perspective of evolutionary biology. His conclusions establish that religion is a meme and that its persistence in history is explained by the replicating processes of memetic structures. However, are there reasons of philosophical or scientific rationality for men having persisted in religion? Dennett does not go into a deep rational analysis of religion. He simply states that it has a memetic structure and he considers that this is a sufficient basis to {\guillemotleft}break the spell{\guillemotright}.},
	keywords = {Atheism, Dennett, memes, religion},
	url = {http://www.sp.upcomillas.es/sites/corporativo/Biblioteca\%20de\%20documentos21/6th\%20Session\%20-\%20Philosophy-Theology/Documents/G.\%20Armengol\%20-\%20Daniel\%20Dennett,\%20Memes\%20and\%20Religion.pdf},
	author = {Guillermo Armengol}
}
