Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion

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Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion is the official journal of the International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion (IACESR). The Association was founded in 2006 and since then has sponsored a number of international collaborative projects and biennial conferences.

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Published: 2024-09-01

Editorial

Enactivism, Buddhism, and Neurotheology

Armin W Geertz
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Book Reviews/Review Essays

Articles

Invited Essay

Book Panel

Sacrifice, Secrecy, and Sexual Conflict in Small-Scale Religions

William Buckner
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“We Got Tired” Function, Dysfunction, and the Invisible Host of Religious Failures

Hugh Turpin
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Costly Signaling as an Integral Part of the Systemic Approach to Religion Critical Assessment from within the Field

Radim Chvaja
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How to Bridge Cognitive and Cultural Models of Religious Evolution

Joshua Conrad Jackson
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The Devil’s in the Details

Brian Malley
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Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics of Individual Religiosity

Eva Kundtová Klocová
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Are Rituals Causally Opaque? The Case of Ritual Fasting and Drug Use

Caitlyn Diane Placek
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Religion Is of Reduced Importance When Not Needed to Solve the Problems of Social Living

Catherine L Caldwell-Harris, Daniel L Everett
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Invisible Rituals From Cultural Models to Prototypical Rituals

Renatas Berniūnas
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An Overview of Dimitris Xygalatas’ Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living (2022)

Jordan Kiper, Nick Mauro
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The New Anthropology of Ritual

Jordan Kiper, Nick Mauro
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Ritual Explained? Some Issues and Challenges for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Study of Rituals

Jakub Cigán, Jan Krátký, Radek Kundt, Eva Kundtová Klocová, Martin Lang, Peter Maňo
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Seemingly Senseless Acts

Michael Nicholas Stagnaro
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Some of the Understudied Dimensions of Ritual

Benjamin Grant Purzycki
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Response

The Ritual Spectrum: Definitions, Frameworks, and Implications Response to Commentators

Dimitris Xygalatas
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On Methodological Agnosticism and Neurotheology A Reply to David B. Yaden

Jana Nenadalová, Armin W Geertz
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