Table of Contents

1: Léon Turner: Introduction: Pluralism and Complexity in the Evolutionary Cognitive Science of Religion
2: Ilkka Pyysiäinen: The Cognitive Science of Religion
3: Michael Ruse: Biologically Evolutionary Explanations of Religious Belief
4: Aku Visala: The Evolution of Divine and Human Minds: Evolutionary Psychology, the Cognitive Study of Religion and Theism.
5: Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Omar Sultan Haque, and Richard Sosis: Extending Evolutionary Accounts of Religion beyond the Mind: Religions as Adaptive Systems
6: Nathaniel F. Barrett: Skilful Engagement and the "Effort after Value": An Axiological Theory of the Origins of Religion
7: Fraser Watts: Religion and the Emergence of Differentiated Cognition
8: Wentzel van Huyssteen: From Empathy to Embodied Faith? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Evolution of Religion
9: Léon Turner: Neither Friends nor Enemies: The Complex Relationship Between Cognitive and Humanistic Accounts of Religious Belief
10: Timothy Jenkins: The Cognitive Science of Religion from an Anthropological Perspective: Nature and History Reconciled?
11: Leslie Newson and Peter Richerson: Religion: the Dynamics of Cultural Adaptations
12: William Sims Bainbridge: Artificial Intelligence Models of Religious Evolution
13: Malcolm Jeeves: Concluding Reflections

About the Author

Fraser Watts is Fellow of Queens' College at the University of Cambridge,

Leon P. Turner is Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge.