Evolution, religion, and cognitive science : critical and constructive essays /
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014. |
| Description: | viii, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10090321 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Contributors
- 1. Introduction: Pluralism and Complexity in the Evolutionary Cognitive Science of Religion
- 2. The Cognitive Science of Religion
- 3. Biologically Evolutionary Explanations of Religious Belief
- 4. The Evolution of Divine and Human Minds: Evolutionary Psychology, the Cognitive Study of Religion and Theism
- 5. Extending Evolutionary Accounts of Religion beyond the Mind: Religions as Adaptive Systems
- 6. Skilful Engagement and the 'Effort after Value': An Axiological Theory of the Origins of Religion
- 7. Religion and the Emergence of Differentiated Cognition
- 8. From Empathy to Embodied Faith? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Evolution of Religion
- 9. Neither Friends nor Enemies: The Complex Relationship between Cognitive and Humanistic Accounts of Religious Belief
- 10. The Cognitive Science of Religion from an Anthropological Perspective
- 11. Religion: The Dynamics of Cultural Adaptations
- 12. Artifical Intelligence Models of Religious Evolution William Sims Bainbridge
- 13. Concluding Reflections
- Subject Index
- Author Index
