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The past two decades have seen a growing interest in evolutionary and scientific approaches to religion. This is an outstanding reference source to these topics, debates and issues. This is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, anthropology and related fields.
The past two decades have seen a growing interest in evolutionary and scientific approaches to religion. This is an outstanding reference source to these topics, debates and issues. This is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, anthropology and related fields.
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Autorenporträt
Yair Lior is Doctor of Religious Studies at Boston University, USA, and a research associate at the Center for Mind and Culture (CMAC), Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Justin Lane is co-founder and CEO at CulturePulse Inc. (USA/Slovakia), Scientific Advisor at DEKK Institute (Bratislava, Slovakia), and collaborates as a researcher with the Slovak Academy of Science (Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology).
Inhaltsangabe
1 Introduction: Evolutionary Approaches to Religion Yair Lior and Justin Lane
PART 1 Evolutionary Psychology
2 Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology Justin Lane and Yair Lior
3 Child Development: The Effects of Ritual on Cognitive Development Veronika Rybanska
4 Cognition and the History of Religion Luther H. Martin
5 Evoked Culture: Cognitive Mechanisms of Religious Belief and Behavior E. Thomas Lawson
6 Sacred Values: Identity Fusion, Devoted Actor Theory, and Extremism Kayla Bonnin and Justin Lane
7 Sexual Selection: Long- term Mating Strategies and Religion James A. Van Slyke
8 Minimally Counterintuitive Concepts: A Unified Theory in the Cognitive Science of Religion? Muhammad Afzal Upal
9 Faces in Clouds and Voices in the Wind: Anthropomorphism, Agency Detection and Human Cognition Stewart E. Guthrie and Michaela Porubanova
10 Social Brain Hypothesis: Dunbar's Number and the Stability of Religious Social Networks Michael J. Gantley, John P. McKeown and Ángel V. Jiménez
11 Atheism: A New Evolutionary Perspective on Non-Belief Thomas J. Coleman, Kyle J. Messick, and Valerie van Mulukom
12 Personality and Psychology in the Evolution of Religion Igor Miklousic and Boris Mlacic
13 Hazard Precaution: Examining the Possible Adaptive Value of Ritualized Behavior Martin Lang and Radim Chvaja
PART 2 Cultural Evolution
14 Introduction to Cultural Evolution Armin W. Geertz
15 Cultural Group Selection and the Evolution of Religion Taylor Davis
16 Costly Signaling: The ABCs of Signaling Theory and Religion Richard Sosis
17 Credibility Enhancing Displays (CREDs): When They Work and When They Don't Hugh Turpin and Jonathan A. Lanman
18 Dual Inheritance Theory: Religion, Narrative, and Selection Francesco Ferretti and Ines Adornetti
19 The Co- evolution of Religion and Literate Culture Daniel Mullins
20 Religion and Prosociality: The Naturalization of Norms Connor Wood
21 Big Gods Theory: The Cultural Evolution of Social Complexity and Prosocial Religions Yair Lior
22 The Evolution of Ritual, Cognition, and Modes of Religiosity During the Agricultural Transition Michael J. Gantley
23 Meme Theory Justin Lane
24 Institutional Evolution: The Dynamics of Religious Formations Jonathan H. Turner and Armin W. Geertz
25 Behavioral Ecology: Niche Construction and Religion John Balch
PART 3 Synthetic Approaches
26 Synthetic Approaches: At the Intersection of Evolutionary Psychology and Cultural Evolution Yair Lior and Justin Lane
27 Religion Emerges: The Evolution of Language and Religion Paul Cassell
28 Cultural Cybernetics of Religion: Computation and Information Transmission in Religion Justin Lane
29 Major Transitions in Cultural Evolution: A Dynamic Systems Approach Yair Lior
30 Cultural Epidemiology: Attractors and Representations Radu Umbre
31 Differentiating Processes of Biological, Cognitive, and Cultural Selection: Implications for the Adaptation/ Byproduct Debate Lee Kirkpatrick
32 Synthesis and Explanatory Pluralism Wesley J. Wildman and David Rohr
33 Concluding Reflections: An Evolutionary Approach to Comparative Religion William E. Paden
