Evolution, religion, and cognitive science : critical and constructive essays / edited by Fraser Watts and Léon Turner.

Contributor Watts, Fraser N. editor.

Edition Statement:First edition.

Imprint:Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Descriptionviii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Note:Outgrowth in part of two conferences held in Cambridge in 2009: the Darwin Festival and a conference of the International Society for Science and Religion. (Preface).

Note:Introduction: Pluralism and complexity in the evolutionary cognitive science of religion / Léon Turner -- The cognitive science of religion / Ilkka Pyysiäinen -- Biologically evolutionary explanations of religious belief / Michael Ruse -- The evolution of divine and human minds : evolutionary psychology, the cognitive study of religion and theism / Aku Visala -- Extending evolutionary accounts of religion beyond the mind : religions as adaptive systems / Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Omar Sultan Haque, and Richard Sosis -- Skilful engagement and the 'effort after value' : an axiological theory of the orgins of religion / Nathaniel F. Barrett -- Religion and the emergence of differentiated cognition / Fraser Watts -- From empathy to embodied faith? : interdisciplinary perspectives on the evolution of religion / J. Wentzel van Huyssteen -- Neither friends nor enemies : the complex relationship between cognitive and humanistic accounts of religious belief / Léon Turner -- The cognitive science of religion from an anthropological perspective / Timothy Jenkins -- Religion : the dynamics of cultural adaptations / Lesley Newson and Peter Richerson -- Artificial intelligence models of religious evolution / William Sims Bainbridge -- Concluding reflections / Malcolm Jeeves.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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