The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion 1st Edition by Yair Lior 9781000638417 1000638413

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• ISBN 10:  1000638413
• ISBN 13: 9781000638417
• Author: Yair Lior 

The past two decades have seen a growing interest in evolutionary and scientific approaches to religion. The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting and emerging field. Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors the handbook pulls together scholarship in the following areas: evolutionary psychology and the cognitive science of religion (CSR) cultural evolution the complementarity of evolutionary psychology, cognitive science and cultural evolution Within these sections central issues, debates and problems are examined, including: Cliodynamics, cultural group selection, costly signaling, dual inheritance theory, literacy, transmitting narratives, prosociality, supernatural punishment, cognition and ritual, meme theory, fusion theory, sexual selection, agency detection, evoked culture, social brain hypothesis, theory of mind, developmental psychology, emergence theory, social learning, cultural cybernetics, cultural epidemiology, evolutionary and cultural psychology, memetics, by-product and adaptationist theories of religion, systems and information theory, and computer modeling. This Handbook is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies and anthropology. It will also be very useful to those in related fields, such as psychology, sociology of religion, cognitive biology, and evolutionary biology.

Table contents:

1 Introduction: Evolutionary Approaches to Religion

Part 1 Evolutionary Psychology

2 Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology

3 Child Development: The Effects of Ritual on Cognitive Development

4 Cognition and the History of Religion

5 Evoked Culture: Cognitive Mechanisms of Religious Belief and Behavior

6 Sacred Values: Identity Fusion, Devoted Actor Theory, and Extremism

7 Sexual Selection: Long-term Mating Strategies and Religion

8 Minimally Counterintuitive Concepts: A Unified Theory in the Cognitive Science of Religion?

9 Faces in Clouds and Voices in the Wind: Anthropomorphism, Agency Detection and Human Cognition

10 Social Brain Hypothesis: Dunbar’s Number and the Stability of Religious Social Networks

11 Atheism: A New Evolutionary Perspective on Non-Belief

12 Personality and Psychology in the Evolution of Religion

13 Hazard Precaution: Examining the Possible Adaptive Value of Ritualized Behavior

Part 2 Cultural Evolution

14 Introduction to Cultural Evolution

15 Cultural Group Selection and the Evolution of Religion

16 Costly Signaling: The ABCs of Signaling Theory and Religion

17 Credibility Enhancing Displays (CREDs): When They Work and When They Don’t

18 Dual Inheritance Theory: Religion, Narrative, and Selection

19 The Co-evolution of Religion and Literate Culture

20 Religion and Prosociality: The Naturalization of Norms

21 Big Gods Theory: The Cultural Evolution of Social Complexity and Prosocial Religions

22 The Evolution of Ritual, Cognition, and Modes of Religiosity During the Agricultural Transition

23 Meme Theory

24 Institutional Evolution: The Dynamics of Religious Formations

25 Behavioral Ecology: Niche Construction and Religion

Part 3 Synthetic Approaches

26 Synthetic Approaches: At the Intersection of Evolutionary Psychology and Cultural Evolution

27 Religion Emerges: The Evolution of Language and Religion

28 Cultural Cybernetics of Religion: Computation and Information Transmission in Religion

29 Major Transitions in Cultural Evolution: A Dynamic Systems Approach

30 Cultural Epidemiology: Attractors and Representations

31 Differentiating Processes of Biological, Cognitive, and Cultural Selection: Implications for the Adaptation/ Byproduct Debate

32 Synthesis and Explanatory Pluralism

33 Concluding Reflections: An Evolutionary Approach to Comparative Religion

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