Guest Editor's Introduction
The Science of God: Natural Origins of Religion in an Evolutionary Perspective
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evolutionary biology, kiniseology, neurobiology, ethnographyAbstract
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Abbe, A., L. Gulick, and J. Herman. 2008. ‘Cross-Cultural Competence in Army Leaders: A Conceptual and Empirical Foundation’ (Study Report 2008–01; Arlington, VA: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences).
Abu-Akel, A. 2002. ‘The Neurochemical Hypothesis of “Theory of Mind” ’, Medical Hypothesis 60: 382-86. doi:10.1016/S0306-9877(02)00406-1.
Alper, M. 2008. The ‘God’ Part of the Brain: A Scienti_c Interpretation of Human Spirituality and God (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks).
Atran, S. 2002. In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
———. 2006a. ‘The Cognitive and Evolutionary Roots of Religion’, in McNamara 2006: 181-207.
———. 2006b. ‘The Moral Logic and Growth of Suicide Terrorism’, The Washington Quarterly 29: 127-47.
Atran, S., and R. Axelrod. 2008. ‘Reframing Sacred Values’, Negotiation Journal 24: 221-46. doi:10.1111/j.1571-9979.2008.00182.x.
Atran, S., D. Medin, N. Ross, E. Lynch, V. Vapnarsky, E. Ucan Ek’, J. Coley, C. Timura, and M. Baran. 2002. ‘Folkecology, Cultural Epidemiology, and the Spirit of the Commons: A Garden Experiment in the Maya Lowlands: 1991–2001’, Current Anthropology 43: 421-50. doi:10.1086/339528.
Barrett, J. 2000. ‘Exploring the Natural Foundations of Religion’, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4: 29–34. doi:10.1016/S1364-6613(99)01419-9.
———. 2004. Why Would Anyone Believe in God? (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press).
———. 2007. ‘Cognitive Science of Religion: What is it and Why is it?’, Religion Compass (September). Online: http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/religion/article_view?article_id=reco_articles_bpl042 (accessed 9 December 2009).
Begley, S. 2001. ‘Your Brain on Religion: Mystic Visions or Brain Circuits at Work?’, Newsweek (7 May): 50.
Berman, M. 2000. Wandering God (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press).
Bloom, P. 2004. Descartes’ Baby: How Child Development Explains What Makes us Human (London: William Heinemann).
———. 2005. ‘Is God an Accident?’, Atlantic Monthly (December): 1-8.
———. 2007. ‘Religion is Natural’, Developmental Science 10: 147-51. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00577.x.
Bowen, J.R. 1998. Religions in Practice (Boston: Allyn & Bacon).
Boyer, P. 1993. ‘Religious Thought and Behavior as Byproducts of Brain Function’, Trends in Cognitive Science 7: 119-24. doi:10.1016/S1364-6613(03)00031-7.
———. 1994. A Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion (Berkeley: University of California Press).
———. 2002. Religion Explained (New York: Basic Books).
———. 2005. ‘A Reductionistic Model of Distinct Modes of Religious Transmission’, in H. Whitehouse and R.N. McCauley (eds.), Mind and Religion: Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press): 3-29.
Boyer, P., and P. Lienard. 2007. ‘Why Ritualized Behavior? Precaution Systems and Action Parsing in Developmental, Pathological, and Cultural Rituals’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29: 595-650.
Bulbulia, J., R. Sosis, E. Harris, R. Genet, C. Genet, and K. Wyman (eds.). 2008. The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories and Critiques (Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press).
Bulkeley, K. 2004. The Wondering Brain: Thinking about Religion with and Beyond Cognitive Neuroscience (London: Routledge).
———. 2005. Soul, Psyche, Brain: New Directions in the Study of Religion and Brain-Mind Science (New York: Palgrave MacMillan).
Buss, D. 2003. Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of Mind (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2nd edn).
Castanada, C. 1971. A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan (New York: Simon & Schuster).
———. 1973. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (New York: Ballantine Books).
Cosmides, L., and J. Tooby. 1996. ‘Are Humans Good Intuitive Statisticians after All? Rethinking Some Conclusions from the Literature on Judgment under Uncertainty’, Cognition 43: 127-71.
D’Aquili, E., and A. Newberg. 1999. Mystical Mind (Minneapolis: Fortress Press).
Dawkins, R. 2006. The God Delusion (London: Bantam Press).
Dennett, D. 1996. Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life (New York: Simon & Schuster).
———. 2007. Breaking the Spell: Religion as Natural Phenomenon (New York: Penguin).
Dickson, R.B. 1996. The Dawn of Belief (Tucson: University of Arizona Press).
Dietrich, A., and W.F. McDaniel. 2004. ‘Endocannabinoids and Exercise’, British Journal of Sports Medicine 38/5: 536-41. doi:10.1136/bjsm.2004.011718.
Elliot, H. 2007. ‘New Field of Neurotheology Opens Door for Scienti_c Study of Belief’, Associated Baptist Press (8 August). Online: http://www.abpnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2808&Itemid=120 (accessed 25 May 2008).
Goleman, D. 2003. ‘Finding Happiness: Cajole Your Brain to Lean to the Left’, New York Times (4 February): F5.
Goodall, J. 1986. The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior (Boston: Bellknap Press of the Harvard University Press).
———. 2000. Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey (Clayton, VIC: Warner Books).
Gould, S.J., and R.C. Lewontin. 1979. ‘The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Program’, Proceedings of the Royal Academy of London, series B, 205.1161: 581-98.
Grif_ths, R.R., W.A. Richards, U. McCann, and R. Jesse. 2006. ‘Psilocybin Can Occasion Mystical-Type Experiences Having Substantial Sustained Personal Meaning and Spiritual Signi_cance’, Psychopharmacology 187: 268-83. doi:10.1007/s00213-006-0457-5.
Guthrie, S. 1993. Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Hamer, D. 2004. The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired in our Genes (New York: Doubleday).
Harris, S. 2004. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (New York: W.W. Norton).
———. 2008. Letters to a Christian Nation (New York: Vintage).
Haviland, W., H. Prins, D. Walruth, and B. McBride. 2005. Anthropology: The Human Challenge (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth).
Henig, R.M. 2007. ‘Darwin’s God’, New York Times Magazine (7 March). Online: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/magazine/04evolution.t.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1198041076-kbd5/%20mI61KP62dWEBFr6Q (accessed 5 April 2009).
Hitchens, C. 2009. God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (New York: Twelve).
Hitt, J. 1999. ‘This is your Brain on God’, Wired Magazine (7 July). Online: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.11/persinger.html (accessed 25 May 2009).
Jones, P. 2006. ‘Ultrarunners and Chance Encounters with “Absolute Unitary Being”’, Journal of Anthropology of Consciousness 15.2: 39-49. doi:10.1525/ac.2004.15.2.39.
Kellert, S.R., and E.O. Wilson. 1993. The Biophilia Hypothesis (Covelo, CA: Island Press).
King, B. 2007. Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion (New York: Doubleday).
Kluger, J. 2004. ‘Is God in our Genes?’, Time 164: 62-70.
Kotler, S. 2006. West of Jesus: Sur_ng, Science and the Origins of Belief (New York: Bloomsbury).
Lawson, E.T., and R.N. McCauley. 1990. Rethinking Religion: Connection, Cognition and Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Lee, R.B. 1979. The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Liebenberg, L. 2006. ‘Persistence Hunting by Modern Hunter-Gatherers’, Current Anthropology 47/5: 1017-26. doi:10.1086/508695.
McCauley, R., and E.T. Lawson. 2002. Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
McNamara, P. 2009. The Neuroscience of Religious Experience (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
McNamara, P. (ed.). 2006. Where God and Science Meet: How Brain and Evolutionary Studies Alter Our Understanding of Religion (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Books).
Medin, D., and S. Atran. 2004. ‘The Native Mind: Biological Categorization and Reasoning in Development and Across Cultures’, Psychological Review 111/4: 960-83. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.111.4.960.
Mithan, S. 1996. Prehistory of the Human Mind (London: Thames & Hudson).
Newberg, A., E. D’Aquili, and V. Krause. 2002. Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief (New York: Ballantine).
Newberg, A., and M. Waldman. 2006. Why We Believe What We Believe: Uncovering Our Biological Need for Meaning, Spirituality, and Truth (New York: Free Press).
———. 2007. Born to Believe: God, Science and the Origin of Ordinary and Extraordinary Beliefs (New York: Free Press).
———. 2009. How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthroughs from a Leading Neuroscientist (New York: Ballantine).
Novak, M. 1993. The Joy of Sports (Revised): Endzones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the American Spirit (New York: Madison Books).
Persinger, M. 1987. Neuropsychological Bases of God Beliefs (Greenwood, CT: Praeger).
Pinker, S. 2002. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human History (New York: Penguin Books).
———. 2009. How the Mind Works (New York: W.W. Norton).
Prebish, C. 1992. Religion and Sport: The Meeting of Sacred and Profane (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press).
Sahlins, M. 2003. Stone Age Economics (London: Routledge).
Sands, R.R. 1999. Sport and Culture: At Play in the Fields of Anthropology (New York: Simon & Schuster).
Schultes, R., A. Hofman, and C. Ratisch. 2001. Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers (Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press).
Selmeski, B. 2007. ‘Military Cross-Cultural Competence: Core Concepts and Individual Development’, Royal Military College of Canada Centre for Security, Armed Forces and Society Occasional Paper Series, Number 1.
Shepard, P. 2004. Coming Home to the Pleistocene (Washington, DC: Island Press).
Sosis, R. 2003. ‘Why aren’t we all Hutterites? Costly Signaling Theory and Religious Behavior’, Human Nature 14: 91-127. doi:10.1007/s12110-003-1000-6.
_______. 2004. ‘The Adaptive Value of Religious Ritual’, American Scientist (March/April): 166-72.
Sosis, R., and C. Alcorta. 2003. ‘Signaling, Solidarity, and the Sacred: The Evolution of Religious Behavior’, Evolutionary Anthropology 12: 264-74. doi:10.1002/evan.10120.
Sosis, R., and J. Bulbulia. 2008. ‘Introduction: Religion in Eden’, in Bulbulia et al. 2008: 15-22.
Sperber, D. 1975. Rethinking Symbolism (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Taylor, B. 2009. Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future (Berkeley: University of California Press).
Tooby, J., and L. Cosmides. 1992. ‘The Psychological Foundations of Culture’, in J.H. Barkow, L. Cosmides, and J. Tooby (eds.), The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture (New York: Oxford University Press): 19-136.
Ungar, P.S. 2006. Evolution of the Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Wallace, A.F.C. 1966. Religion: An Anthropological View (New York: Random House).
Whitehead, N., and R. Wright (eds.). 2004. In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia (Durham, NC: Duke University Press).
Whitehouse, H. 1995. Inside the Cult: Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea (Oxford: Clarendon Press).
———. 1996. ‘Rites of Terror: Emotion, Metaphor, and Memory in Melanesian Initiation Cults’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2: 703-15. doi:10.2307/3034304.
———. 2000. Arguments and Icons: Divergent Modes of Religiosity (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
———. 2004. Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press).
Whitehouse, H. (ed.). 2001. The Debated Mind: Evolutionary Psychology versus Ethnography (Oxford: Berg Press).
Wilson, D.S. 2002. Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
———. 2008. ‘Evolution and Religion’, in Bulbulia et al. 2008: 23-29.
Wilson, E.O. 1984. Biophilia: The Human Bond with Other Species (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).
Winkelman, M. 2000. The Neural Ecology of Consciousness and Healing (Greenwich, CT: Greenwood Press).
Winkelman, M., and J. Baker. 2008. Supernatural as Natural: A Biocultural Approach to Religion (New Jersey: Prentice Hall).
Wright, R. 1993. The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (New York: Vintage Books).
Abbe, A., L. Gulick, and J. Herman. 2008. ‘Cross-Cultural Competence in Army Leaders: A Conceptual and Empirical Foundation’ (Study Report 2008–01; Arlington, VA: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences).
Abu-Akel, A. 2002. ‘The Neurochemical Hypothesis of “Theory of Mind” ’, Medical Hypothesis 60: 382-86. doi:10.1016/S0306-9877(02)00406-1.
Alper, M. 2008. The ‘God’ Part of the Brain: A Scienti_c Interpretation of Human Spirituality and God (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks).
Atran, S. 2002. In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
———. 2006a. ‘The Cognitive and Evolutionary Roots of Religion’, in McNamara 2006: 181-207.
———. 2006b. ‘The Moral Logic and Growth of Suicide Terrorism’, The Washington Quarterly 29: 127-47.
Atran, S., and R. Axelrod. 2008. ‘Reframing Sacred Values’, Negotiation Journal 24: 221-46. doi:10.1111/j.1571-9979.2008.00182.x.
Atran, S., D. Medin, N. Ross, E. Lynch, V. Vapnarsky, E. Ucan Ek’, J. Coley, C. Timura, and M. Baran. 2002. ‘Folkecology, Cultural Epidemiology, and the Spirit of the Commons: A Garden Experiment in the Maya Lowlands: 1991–2001’, Current Anthropology 43: 421-50. doi:10.1086/339528.
Barrett, J. 2000. ‘Exploring the Natural Foundations of Religion’, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4: 29–34. doi:10.1016/S1364-6613(99)01419-9.
———. 2004. Why Would Anyone Believe in God? (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press).
———. 2007. ‘Cognitive Science of Religion: What is it and Why is it?’, Religion Compass (September). Online: http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/religion/article_view?article_id=reco_articles_bpl042 (accessed 9 December 2009).
Begley, S. 2001. ‘Your Brain on Religion: Mystic Visions or Brain Circuits at Work?’, Newsweek (7 May): 50.
Berman, M. 2000. Wandering God (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press).
Bloom, P. 2004. Descartes’ Baby: How Child Development Explains What Makes us Human (London: William Heinemann).
———. 2005. ‘Is God an Accident?’, Atlantic Monthly (December): 1-8.
———. 2007. ‘Religion is Natural’, Developmental Science 10: 147-51. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00577.x.
Bowen, J.R. 1998. Religions in Practice (Boston: Allyn & Bacon).
Boyer, P. 1993. ‘Religious Thought and Behavior as Byproducts of Brain Function’, Trends in Cognitive Science 7: 119-24. doi:10.1016/S1364-6613(03)00031-7.
———. 1994. A Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion (Berkeley: University of California Press).
———. 2002. Religion Explained (New York: Basic Books).
———. 2005. ‘A Reductionistic Model of Distinct Modes of Religious Transmission’, in H. Whitehouse and R.N. McCauley (eds.), Mind and Religion: Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press): 3-29.
Boyer, P., and P. Lienard. 2007. ‘Why Ritualized Behavior? Precaution Systems and Action Parsing in Developmental, Pathological, and Cultural Rituals’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29: 595-650.
Bulbulia, J., R. Sosis, E. Harris, R. Genet, C. Genet, and K. Wyman (eds.). 2008. The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories and Critiques (Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press).
Bulkeley, K. 2004. The Wondering Brain: Thinking about Religion with and Beyond Cognitive Neuroscience (London: Routledge).
———. 2005. Soul, Psyche, Brain: New Directions in the Study of Religion and Brain-Mind Science (New York: Palgrave MacMillan).
Buss, D. 2003. Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of Mind (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2nd edn).
Castanada, C. 1971. A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan (New York: Simon & Schuster).
———. 1973. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (New York: Ballantine Books).
Cosmides, L., and J. Tooby. 1996. ‘Are Humans Good Intuitive Statisticians after All? Rethinking Some Conclusions from the Literature on Judgment under Uncertainty’, Cognition 43: 127-71.
D’Aquili, E., and A. Newberg. 1999. Mystical Mind (Minneapolis: Fortress Press).
Dawkins, R. 2006. The God Delusion (London: Bantam Press).
Dennett, D. 1996. Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life (New York: Simon & Schuster).
———. 2007. Breaking the Spell: Religion as Natural Phenomenon (New York: Penguin).
Dickson, R.B. 1996. The Dawn of Belief (Tucson: University of Arizona Press).
Dietrich, A., and W.F. McDaniel. 2004. ‘Endocannabinoids and Exercise’, British Journal of Sports Medicine 38/5: 536-41. doi:10.1136/bjsm.2004.011718.
Elliot, H. 2007. ‘New Field of Neurotheology Opens Door for Scienti_c Study of Belief’, Associated Baptist Press (8 August). Online: http://www.abpnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2808&Itemid=120 (accessed 25 May 2008).
Goleman, D. 2003. ‘Finding Happiness: Cajole Your Brain to Lean to the Left’, New York Times (4 February): F5.
Goodall, J. 1986. The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior (Boston: Bellknap Press of the Harvard University Press).
———. 2000. Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey (Clayton, VIC: Warner Books).
Gould, S.J., and R.C. Lewontin. 1979. ‘The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Program’, Proceedings of the Royal Academy of London, series B, 205.1161: 581-98.
Grif_ths, R.R., W.A. Richards, U. McCann, and R. Jesse. 2006. ‘Psilocybin Can Occasion Mystical-Type Experiences Having Substantial Sustained Personal Meaning and Spiritual Signi_cance’, Psychopharmacology 187: 268-83. doi:10.1007/s00213-006-0457-5.
Guthrie, S. 1993. Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Hamer, D. 2004. The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired in our Genes (New York: Doubleday).
Harris, S. 2004. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (New York: W.W. Norton).
———. 2008. Letters to a Christian Nation (New York: Vintage).
Haviland, W., H. Prins, D. Walruth, and B. McBride. 2005. Anthropology: The Human Challenge (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth).
Henig, R.M. 2007. ‘Darwin’s God’, New York Times Magazine (7 March). Online: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/magazine/04evolution.t.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1198041076-kbd5/%20mI61KP62dWEBFr6Q (accessed 5 April 2009).
Hitchens, C. 2009. God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (New York: Twelve).
Hitt, J. 1999. ‘This is your Brain on God’, Wired Magazine (7 July). Online: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.11/persinger.html (accessed 25 May 2009).
Jones, P. 2006. ‘Ultrarunners and Chance Encounters with “Absolute Unitary Being”’, Journal of Anthropology of Consciousness 15.2: 39-49. doi:10.1525/ac.2004.15.2.39.
Kellert, S.R., and E.O. Wilson. 1993. The Biophilia Hypothesis (Covelo, CA: Island Press).
King, B. 2007. Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion (New York: Doubleday).
Kluger, J. 2004. ‘Is God in our Genes?’, Time 164: 62-70.
Kotler, S. 2006. West of Jesus: Sur_ng, Science and the Origins of Belief (New York: Bloomsbury).
Lawson, E.T., and R.N. McCauley. 1990. Rethinking Religion: Connection, Cognition and Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Lee, R.B. 1979. The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Liebenberg, L. 2006. ‘Persistence Hunting by Modern Hunter-Gatherers’, Current Anthropology 47/5: 1017-26. doi:10.1086/508695.
McCauley, R., and E.T. Lawson. 2002. Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
McNamara, P. 2009. The Neuroscience of Religious Experience (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
McNamara, P. (ed.). 2006. Where God and Science Meet: How Brain and Evolutionary Studies Alter Our Understanding of Religion (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Books).
Medin, D., and S. Atran. 2004. ‘The Native Mind: Biological Categorization and Reasoning in Development and Across Cultures’, Psychological Review 111/4: 960-83. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.111.4.960.
Mithan, S. 1996. Prehistory of the Human Mind (London: Thames & Hudson).
Newberg, A., E. D’Aquili, and V. Krause. 2002. Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief (New York: Ballantine).
Newberg, A., and M. Waldman. 2006. Why We Believe What We Believe: Uncovering Our Biological Need for Meaning, Spirituality, and Truth (New York: Free Press).
———. 2007. Born to Believe: God, Science and the Origin of Ordinary and Extraordinary Beliefs (New York: Free Press).
———. 2009. How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthroughs from a Leading Neuroscientist (New York: Ballantine).
Novak, M. 1993. The Joy of Sports (Revised): Endzones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the American Spirit (New York: Madison Books).
Persinger, M. 1987. Neuropsychological Bases of God Beliefs (Greenwood, CT: Praeger).
Pinker, S. 2002. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human History (New York: Penguin Books).
———. 2009. How the Mind Works (New York: W.W. Norton).
Prebish, C. 1992. Religion and Sport: The Meeting of Sacred and Profane (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press).
Sahlins, M. 2003. Stone Age Economics (London: Routledge).
Sands, R.R. 1999. Sport and Culture: At Play in the Fields of Anthropology (New York: Simon & Schuster).
Schultes, R., A. Hofman, and C. Ratisch. 2001. Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers (Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press).
Selmeski, B. 2007. ‘Military Cross-Cultural Competence: Core Concepts and Individual Development’, Royal Military College of Canada Centre for Security, Armed Forces and Society Occasional Paper Series, Number 1.
Shepard, P. 2004. Coming Home to the Pleistocene (Washington, DC: Island Press).
Sosis, R. 2003. ‘Why aren’t we all Hutterites? Costly Signaling Theory and Religious Behavior’, Human Nature 14: 91-127. doi:10.1007/s12110-003-1000-6.
_______. 2004. ‘The Adaptive Value of Religious Ritual’, American Scientist (March/April): 166-72.
Sosis, R., and C. Alcorta. 2003. ‘Signaling, Solidarity, and the Sacred: The Evolution of Religious Behavior’, Evolutionary Anthropology 12: 264-74. doi:10.1002/evan.10120.
Sosis, R., and J. Bulbulia. 2008. ‘Introduction: Religion in Eden’, in Bulbulia et al. 2008: 15-22.
Sperber, D. 1975. Rethinking Symbolism (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Taylor, B. 2009. Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future (Berkeley: University of California Press).
Tooby, J., and L. Cosmides. 1992. ‘The Psychological Foundations of Culture’, in J.H. Barkow, L. Cosmides, and J. Tooby (eds.), The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture (New York: Oxford University Press): 19-136.
Ungar, P.S. 2006. Evolution of the Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Wallace, A.F.C. 1966. Religion: An Anthropological View (New York: Random House).
Whitehead, N., and R. Wright (eds.). 2004. In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia (Durham, NC: Duke University Press).
Whitehouse, H. 1995. Inside the Cult: Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea (Oxford: Clarendon Press).
———. 1996. ‘Rites of Terror: Emotion, Metaphor, and Memory in Melanesian Initiation Cults’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2: 703-15. doi:10.2307/3034304.
———. 2000. Arguments and Icons: Divergent Modes of Religiosity (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
———. 2004. Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press).
Whitehouse, H. (ed.). 2001. The Debated Mind: Evolutionary Psychology versus Ethnography (Oxford: Berg Press).
Wilson, D.S. 2002. Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
———. 2008. ‘Evolution and Religion’, in Bulbulia et al. 2008: 23-29.
Wilson, E.O. 1984. Biophilia: The Human Bond with Other Species (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).
Winkelman, M. 2000. The Neural Ecology of Consciousness and Healing (Greenwich, CT: Greenwood Press).
Winkelman, M., and J. Baker. 2008. Supernatural as Natural: A Biocultural Approach to Religion (New Jersey: Prentice Hall).
Wright, R. 1993. The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (New York: Vintage Books).
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Sands, R. R. (2010). Guest Editor’s Introduction: The Science of God: Natural Origins of Religion in an Evolutionary Perspective. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 3(4), 437-457. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v3i4.437
