The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior

In a Darwinian world, religious behavior - just like other behaviors - is likely to have undergone a process of natural selection in which it was rewarded in the evolutionary currency of reproductive success. This book aims to provide a better understanding of the social scenarios in which selection...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Voland, Eckart (Editor ), Schiefenhövel, Wulf (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:The Frontiers Collection,
Temas:
Evolution (Biology).
Philosophy, Modern.
Religion-Philosophy.
Anthropology.
Religion.
Evolutionary Biology.
Early Modern Philosophy.
Philosophy of Religion.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Evaluating the Evolutionary Status of Religiosity and Religiousnessreligiousness
  • Gods, Gains, and Genes
  • How Some Major Components of Religion Could Have Evolved by Natural Selection?
  • The Correlated History of Social Organization, Moralitymorality , and Religion
  • Is There a Particular Role for Ideational Aspects of Religions in Human Behavioral Ecology?
  • Talk and Tradition: Why the Least Interesting Components of Religion May Be the Most Evolutionarily Important
  • The Reproductive Benefits of Religious Affiliation
  • The African Interregnum: The "Where," "When," and "Why" of the Evolution of Religion
  • Explaining the Inexplicable: Traditional and Syncretistic Religiosity in Melanesia
  • Authoritarianism,Religiousness,religiousness and Conservatismconservatism : Is "Obedience to Authority" the Explanation for Their Clustering, Universality and Evolution?
  • Cognitive Foundations in the Development of a Religious Mind
  • Religious Belief and Neurocognitive Processes of the Self
  • Neurologic Constraints on Evolutionary Theories of Religion
  • On Shared Psychological Mechanisms of Religiousnessreligiousness and Delusional Beliefs
  • Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity
  • The Religious System as Adaptive: Cognitive Flexibility, Public Displays, and Acceptance
  • The Evolution of Evolutionary Theories of Religion
  • Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion - What They Can and What They Cannot Explain (Yet).

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