The Attraction of Religion

• Paperback | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• Religion is an evolutionary puzzle. It involves beliefs in counterfactual worlds and engagement in costly rituals. Yet religion is widespread across a... Lees meer

Religious Evolution and the Axial Age

Stephen K Sanderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• Religious Evolution and the Axial Age describes and explains the evolution of religion over the past ten millennia. It shows that an overall evolution... Lees meer

Religion, Disease, and Immunology

Thomas B Ellis

• Paperback | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• This book argues that religion has emerged over evolutionary time as a strategy for managing the transmission, contraction, and eradication of infecti... Lees meer

The Study of Greek and Roman Religions

Nickolas P Roubekas

• Hardcover | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• How should ancient religious ideas be approached? Is "religion" an applicable term to antiquity? Should classicists, ancient historians, and religious... Lees meer

Religion Explained?

• Paperback | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• With contributions from founders of the field, including Justin Barrett, E. Thomas Lawson, Robert N. McCauley, Paschal Boyer, Armin Geertz and Harvey ... Lees meer

Religion in Science Fiction

Steven Hrotic

• Hardcover | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• Religion in Science Fiction investigates the history of the representations of religion in science fiction literature. Space travel, futuristic societ... Lees meer

Understanding Religion Through Artificial Intelligence

Justin E Lane

• Paperback | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• In Understanding Religion through Artificial Intelligence , Justin E. Lane looks at the reasons why humans feel they are part of a religious group, de... Lees meer

Solving the Evolutionary Puzzle of Human Cooperation

Glenn Barenthin

• Hardcover | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• In this book, Glenn Barenthin provides a new solution to a key question in the cognitive and evolutionary study of religion: why do humans cooperate? ... Lees meer

The Mind of Mithraists

Luther H Martin

• Paperback | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• The Roman cult of Mithras was the most widely-dispersed and densely-distributed cult throughout the expanse of the Roman Empire from the end of the fi... Lees meer

Death Anxiety and Religious Belief

Jonathan Jong, Jamin Halberstadt

• Hardcover | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• There are no atheists in foxholes; or so we hear. The thought that the fear of death motivates religious belief has been around since the earliest spe... Lees meer

Death Anxiety and Religious Belief

Jonathan Jong, Jamin Halberstadt

• Paperback | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• There are no atheists in foxholes; or so we hear. The thought that the fear of death motivates religious belief has been around since the earliest spe... Lees meer

Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion

Robert N McCauley

• Hardcover | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson are considered the founders of the field of the cognitive science of religion. Since its inception over twenty... Lees meer

The Roman Mithras Cult

Olympia Panagiotidou, Roger Beck

• Hardcover | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• This book is the first full cognitive history of an ancient religious practice. In this ground-breaking study on one of the most intriguing and myster... Lees meer

The Mind of Mithraists

Luther H Martin

• Hardcover | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• The Roman cult of Mithras was the most widely-dispersed and densely-distributed cult throughout the expanse of the Roman Empire from the end of the fi... Lees meer

Imagining the Cognitive Science of Religion

E Thomas Lawson

• Hardcover | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• Uniting Thomas Lawson's essays on the cognitive science of religion, this volume explores theoretical issues in the study of cultural phenomena such a... Lees meer

Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion

Robert N McCauley

• Paperback | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson are considered the founders of the field of the cognitive science of religion. Since its inception over twenty... Lees meer

The Study of Greek and Roman Religions

Nickolas P Roubekas

• Paperback | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• How should ancient religious ideas be approached? Is "religion" an applicable term to antiquity? Should classicists, ancient historians, and religious... Lees meer

The Construction of the Supernatural in Euro-American Cultures

Benson Saler

• Paperback | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• This book describes aspects of the concept of the supernatural from the intellectual history of Euro-American cultures. These samplings shed light on ... Lees meer

A Social Cognition Perspective of the Psychology of Religion

Luke Galen

• Hardcover | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• An exploration of how psychological mechanisms produce intuitions, beliefs, behaviors, and experiences that are misattributed as being unique outcomes... Lees meer

The Roman Mithras Cult

Olympia Panagiotidou, Roger Beck

• Paperback | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• This book is the first full cognitive history of an ancient religious practice. In this ground-breaking study on one of the most intriguing and myster... Lees meer

Learned Practice of Religion in the Modern University

Donald Wiebe

• Hardcover | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• In these essays, Donald Wiebe unveils a significant problem in the academic study of religion in colleges and universities in North America and Europe... Lees meer

Religion Explained?

• Hardcover | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• With contributions from founders of the field, including Justin Barrett, E. Thomas Lawson, Robert N. McCauley, Paschal Boyer, Armin Geertz and Harvey ... Lees meer

New Patterns for Comparative Religion

William E Paden

• Paperback | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• The cross-cultural study of religion has always gone hand in hand with the worldview, sciences, or intellectual frameworks of the time. These frames, ... Lees meer

Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion

Radek Kundt

• Paperback | Engels | Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
• Radek Kundt compares the notion of evolution in cultural evolutionary theories with neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory to determine the value of the bi... Lees meer