• Media type: Book
  • Title: The biological evolution of religious mind and behavior
  • Contains: Evaluating the evolutionary status of religiosity and religiousness / Eckart Voland -- Gods, gains, and genes / Rüdiger Vaas -- How some major components of religion could have evolved by natural selection? / Jay R. Feierman -- The correlated history of social organization, morality, and religion / David C. Lahti -- Is there a particular role for ideational aspects of religions in human behavioral ecology / Jürgen Kunz -- Talk and tradition : why the least interesting components of religion may be the most evolutionarily important / Craig T. Palmer, Ryan M. Ellsworth, and Lyle B. Steadman -- The reproductive benefits of religious affiliation / Michael Blume -- The African interregnum : the "where," "when," and "why" of the evolution of religion / Matt Rossano -- Explaining the inexplicable : traditional and syncretistic religiosity in Melanesia / Wulf Schiefenhövel -- Authoritarianism, religiousness, and conservatism : is "obedience to authority" the explanation for their clustering, universality and evolution? / Thomas J. Bouchard Jr. -- Cognitive foundations in the development of a religious mind / Rebekah A. Richert and Erin I. Smith -- Religious belief and neurocognitive processes of the self / Shihui Han -- Neurologic constraints on evolutionary theories of religion / Erica Harris and Patrick McNamara -- On shared psychological mechanisms of religiousness and delusional beliefs / Martin Brüne -- Cognitive foundations of religiosity / Ulrich Frey -- The religious system as adaptive : cognitive flexibility, public displays, and acceptance / Benjamin Grant Purzycki and Richard Sosis -- The evolution of evolutionary theories of religion / Wolfgang Achtner -- Evolutionary perspectives on religion - what they can and what they cannot explain (yet) / Detlef Fetchenhauer.
  • Contributor: Voland, Eckart [Hrsg.]
  • imprint: Dordrecht; Heidelberg u.a.: Springer, 2009
  • Published in: The frontiers collection
  • Extent: X, 304 S.; Ill., graph. Darst; 235 mm x 155 mm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9783642001277; 9783642260162
  • Publisher, production or purchase order numbers: Sonstige Nummer: 12169818
  • RVK notation: BE 2060 : Religiöses Gefühl, Vertrauen, Religiöse Erfahrung, Ehrfurcht
    BH 3240 : Theologie und Humanwissenschaften
  • Keywords: Religiöses Bewusstsein > Hominisation > Evolutionspsychologie
    Religiöses Verhalten > Evolutionspsychologie > Religionssoziologie
    Religiosität > Darwinismus > Evolutionsbiologie
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