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Informationen zum Autor John S.Wilkins! Department of Philosophy! University of Sydney! Australia Zusammenfassung Focuses on the issue of naturalizing religion: on the ways in which cognitive science and social sciences have treated religion as a natural phenomenon. This title questions whether religious behaviour, institutions, and experiences can be explained in natural terms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Part I Adaptation: The cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion! Joseph Bulbulia; A scientific definition of religion! James W. Dow; Are there any religions? An evolutionary exploration! Joseph Bulbulia; Why religion is nothing special but is central! Maurice Bloch. Part II Naturalization of Religion: The evolution of religion: 3 anthropological approaches! James W. Dow; Religion generalized and naturalized! Loyal Rue; Testing major evolutionary hypotheses about religion with a random sample! David Sloan Wilson; Exploring resources of naturalism: religiopoiesis! Ursula Goodenough; Myths as instructions from ancestors: the example of Oedipus! Lyle B Steadman and Craig T. Palmer. Part III Cognitive Science and Religion: A cognitive typology of religious actions! Justin L. Barrett and Brian Malley; Explaining religious ideas: elements of a cognitive approach! Pascal Boyer; Are children 'intuitive theists'? Reasoning about purpose and design in nature! Deborah Kelemen; Whence collective rituals? A cultural selection model of ritualized behavior! Pierre Liénard and Pascal Boyer; God! genes! and cognizing agents! Gregory R. Peterson; 'O Lord...you perceive my thoughts from afar': recursiveness and the evolution of supernatural agency! Jesse M. Bering and Dominic D.P. Johnson. Part IV Sociocultural Accounts: God is watching you: priming God concepts increases prosocial behavior in an anonymous economic game! Azim F. Shariff and Ara Norenzayan; The capacity for religious experience is an evolutionary adaptation to warfare! Allen D. MacNeill; Ritual! emotion! and sacred symbols! Candace S. Alcorta and Richard Sosis. Part V Intelligent Design: Intelligent design: the original version! Francisco J. Ayala; Intelligent design and probability reasoning! Elliott Sober; The intelligent-design movement: science or ideology? Gregory R. Peterson; The advantages of theft over toil: the design inference and arguing from ignorance! John S. Wilkins and Wesley R. Elsberry. Part VI Outcomes and Implications: Evolution and the meaning of life! William Grey; The possibility of meaning in human evolution! Barbara Forrest; Is the spell really broken? Bio-psychological explanations of religion and theistic belief! Justin L. Barrett; How firm a foundation? A response to Justin L Barrett's 'Is the spell really broken?'! Howard J. Van Till; Name index. ...
