Editorial

Religion and Sociality

Authors

  • Dimitris Xygalatas University of Connecticut

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.v2i1.1

Keywords:

religion, social behavior, pro-sociality, anti-sociality

Abstract

Editor's Introduction.

Author Biography

  • Dimitris Xygalatas, University of Connecticut

    Dimitris Xygalatas holds a joint position between the Interacting Minds Centre at Aarhus University and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, where he is directing the Experimental Anthropology Lab. He has previously held positions at the universities of Princeton and Masaryk, where he served as Director of the Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion. His main areas of interest are experimental anthropology and the experimental study of religion, and much of his work has focused on the practice of extreme rituals around the world. He has conducted several years of ethnographic research in Greece, Bulgaria, Spain, and Mauritius and has pioneered new methods, integrating ethnographic and experimental approaches in field research.

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Xygalatas, D., E. Kundurová Kloková, J. Cigan, R. Kundt, P. Mano, S. Kotherová, S. Wallot, M. Kanovsky and P. Mitkidis. forthcoming. Location, Location, Location: Effects of Cross-Religious Primes on Prosocial Behaviour.

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Published

2014-11-10

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Vol. 2 No. 1

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Editorial

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How to Cite

Xygalatas, D. (2014). Editorial: Religion and Sociality. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 2(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.v2i1.1