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Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion

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adaptationist models
Axial Religions
Big Gods
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cognitive anthropology
Cognitive Evolution
cognitive science of religion
Complex Systems Theory
Costly Signaling Theory
Counterintuitive Concepts
Cultural Cybernetics
Cultural Epidemiology
cultural evolution
culture and religion
Dual Inheritance Theory
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evolution and religion
evolution of religion
evolutionary mechanisms in religion
evolutionary psychology
evolutionary religion
Gene Culture Co-evolution
Gene Culture Coevolution
Group Level Traits
Hazard Precaution System
Identity Fusion Theory
Long Term Mating Strategies
memetics
Minimal Counterintuitiveness
Prosocial Religions
religious cognition
religious evolution
Religious Prosociality
ritual behaviour analysis
Social Brain Hypothesis
social learning theory
SP
Supernatural Monitoring
Supernatural Punishment Hypothesis
Supernatural Punishment Theory
Van Slyke
Vice Versa

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138331679
  • Weight: 1080g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Nov 2022
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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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.
About

Yair Lior is Doctor of Religious Studies at Boston University, USA, and a research associate at the Center for Mind and Culture (CMAC), Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Justin Lane is co-founder and CEO at CulturePulse Inc. (USA/Slovakia), Scientific Advisor at DEKK Institute (Bratislava, Slovakia), and collaborates as a researcher with the Slovak Academy of Science (Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology).