Evolution, Religion, and Cognitive Science: Critical and Constructive Essays

Fraser Watts · Léon Turner

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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: Nature and History Reconciled? 11. Religion: the Dynamics of Cultural Adaptations 12. Artificial Intelligence Models of Religious Evolution 13. Concluding Reflections

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