Evolution, religion, and cognitive science
Subtitle: critical and constructive essays
By: edited by Fraser Watts and Léon Turner
Contributors: International Society for Science and Religion; Darwin Festival (2009 : University of Cambridge)
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford, United Kingdom; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780199688081; 9780191512445
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Religious Psychology; Evolutionary psychology; Cognitive science; Evolutionspsychologie; Kognitive Psychologie; Konfession
Other titles: Evolution, religion, & cognitive science
Notes: Outgrowth in part of two conferences held in Cambridge in 2009: the Darwin Festival and a conference of the International Society for Science and Religion. (Preface).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Pluralism and complexity in the evolutionary cognitive science of religion  -- Léon Turner; title: The cognitive science of religion  -- Ilkka Pyysiäinen; title: Biologically evolutionary explanations of religious belief  -- Michael Ruse; title: The evolution of divine and human minds : evolutionary psychology, the cognitive study of religion and theism  -- Aku Visala; title: Extending evolutionary accounts of religion beyond the mind : religions as adaptive systems  -- Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Omar Sultan Haque, and Richard Sosis; title: Skilful engagement and the 'effort after value' : an axiological theory of the orgins of religion  -- Nathaniel F. Barrett; title: Religion and the emergence of differentiated cognition  -- Fraser Watts; title: From empathy to embodied faith? : interdisciplinary perspectives on the evolution of religion  -- J. Wentzel van Huyssteen; title: Neither friends nor enemies : the complex relationship between cognitive and humanistic accounts of religious belief  -- Léon Turner; title: The cognitive science of religion from an anthropological perspective  -- Timothy Jenkins; title: Religion : the dynamics of cultural adaptations  -- Lesley Newson and Peter Richerson; title: Artificial intelligence models of religious evolution  -- William Sims Bainbridge; title: Concluding reflections -- Malcolm Jeeves.