The Routledge handbook of evolutionary approaches to religion. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of evolutionary approaches to religion; Evolutionary approaches to religion
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Yair Lior and Justin Lane.
• Editors: Lior, Yair; Lane, Justin E (Justin Emory), 1987-
• Contents: 1 Introduction: Evolutionary Approaches to Religion; Yair Lior and Justin Lane PART 1; Evolutionary Psychology 2 Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology; Justin Lane and Yair Lior 3 Child Development: The Effects of Ritual on Cognitive Development; Veronika Rybanska 4 Cognition and the History of Religion; Luther H. Martin 5 Evoked Culture: Cognitive Mechanisms of Religious Belief and Behavior; E. Thomas Lawson 6 Sacred Values: Identity Fusion, Devoted Actor Theory, and Extremism; Kayla Bonnin and Justin Lane 7 Sexual Selection: Long- term Mating Strategies and Religion; James A. Van Slyke 8 Minimally Counterintuitive Concepts: A Unified Theory in the Cognitive Science of Religion?; Muhammad Afzal Upal 9 Faces in Clouds and Voices in the Wind: Anthropomorphism, Agency Detection and Human Cognition ; Stewart E. Guthrie and Michaela Porubanova 10 Social Brain Hypothesis: Dunbar’s Number and the Stability of Religious Social Networks; Michael J. Gantley, John P. McKeown and Ángel V. Jiménez 11 Atheism: A New Evolutionary Perspective on Non-Belief; Thomas J. Coleman, Kyle J. Messick, and Valerie van Mulukom 12 Personality and Psychology in the Evolution of Religion; Igor Mikloušić and Boris Mlačić 13 Hazard Precaution: Examining the Possible Adaptive Value of Ritualized Behavior; Martin Lang and Radim Chvaja PART 2; Cultural Evolution 14 Introduction to Cultural Evolution; Armin W. Geertz 15 Cultural Group Selection and the Evolution of Religion; Taylor Davis 16 Costly Signaling: The ABCs of Signaling Theory and Religion; Richard Sosis 17 Credibility Enhancing Displays (CREDs): When They Work and When They Don’t; Hugh Turpin and Jonathan A. Lanman 18 Dual Inheritance Theory: Religion, Narrative, and Selection; Francesco Ferretti and Ines Adornetti 19 The Co- evolution of Religion and Literate Culture; Daniel Mullins 20 Religion and Prosociality: The Naturalization of Norms; Connor Wood 21 Big Gods Theory: The Cultural Evolution of Social Complexity and Prosocial Religions; Yair Lior 22 The Evolution of Ritual, Cognition, and Modes of Religiosity During the Agricultural Transition; Michael J. Gantley 23 Meme Theory; Justin Lane 24 Institutional Evolution: The Dynamics of Religious Formations; Jonathan H. Turner and Armin W. Geertz 25 Behavioral Ecology: Niche Construction and Religion; John Balch PART 3; Synthetic Approaches 26 Synthetic Approaches: At the Intersection of Evolutionary Psychology and Cultural Evolution; Yair Lior and Justin Lane 27 Religion Emerges : The Evolution of Language and Religion; Paul Cassell 28 Cultural Cybernetics of Religion: Computation and Information Transmission in Religion; Justin Lane 29 Major Transitions in Cultural Evolution: A Dynamic Systems Approach; Yair Lior 30 Cultural Epidemiology: Attractors and Representations; Radu Umbreș 31 Differentiating Processes of Biological, Cognitive, and Cultural Selection: Implications for the Adaptation/ Byproduct Debate; Lee Kirkpatrick 32 Synthesis and Explanatory Pluralism; Wesley J. Wildman and David Rohr 33 Concluding Reflections: An Evolutionary Approach to Comparative Religion; William E. Paden Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 210; Religion -- Philosophy; Evolution -- Religious aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000638417; 9781000638387
• Related ISBNs: 9781138331679
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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