And Mankind Created the Gods: A Graphic Novel Adaptation of Pascal Boyer’s Religion Explained

And Mankind Created the Gods is an adaptation of Pascal Boyer’s classic work Religion Explained. It addresses fundamental questions about religion: Why does religion exist? Why do people believe? Do all religions start with the same basic idea?

Fascinated by Boyer’s work, artist Joseph Béhé was inspired to transform it into this remarkable graphic novel. In doing so, Behe has provided an accessible approach to a thorny topic.

Joseph Béhé has designed some twenty comic books, and he cowrites graphic novels with Amandine Laprun and Erwann Surcouf. The creative projects he has been involved in include Péché mortel, La péniche bleue, Pour l’amour de l’art, and Double Je.

Pascal Boyer is Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Psychology and Henry Luce Professor of Collective and Individual Memory at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of a number of books, including most recently Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create.