Matt J. Rossano, Supernatural Selection: How Religion Evolved (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 294 pp., $29.95 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-19-538581-6.

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  • Stefaan Blancke Ghent University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v9i1.26395

Keywords:

evolution of religion, supernatural, history of religion, cognitive science of religion

References

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Atran, Scott. 2002. In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (New York: Oxford University Press).

Barrett, Justin L. 2000. ‘Exploring the Natural Foundations of Religion’, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4.1: 29-34.

Baumard, Nicolas, Jean-Baptiste André, and Dan Sperber. 2013. ‘A Mutualistic Approach to Morality: The Evolution of Fairness by Partner Choice’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 36.1: 59-122.

Bering, Jesse. 2011. The God Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny and the Meaning of Life (London: Nicholas Brealy Publishing).

Boyer, Pascal. 1994. The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion (Berkeley: University of California Press).

———. 2001. Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought (New York: Basic Books).

Guthrie, Stewart. 1993. Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion (New York: Oxford University Press).

Lawson, E. Thomas, and Robert McCauley. 1990. Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Norenzayan, Ara. 2013. Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Con

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2015-05-18

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Blancke, S. (2015). Matt J. Rossano, Supernatural Selection: How Religion Evolved (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 294 pp., $29.95 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-19-538581-6. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 9(1), 122-124. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v9i1.26395