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Mind and Religion: Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity

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Mind and Religion: Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Robert N. McCauley
 

Part I: The Theoretical Context

  1. A Reductionistic Model of Distinct Modes of Religious
          Transmission

    Pascal Boyer
     
  2. Modes Theory: Some Theoretical Considerations

    Robert Hinde
     
  3. Ritual Form and Ritual Frequency: From Ethnographic Reports to
          Experimental Findings

    E. Thomas Lawson
     
  4. Divergent Religion: A Dual-Process Model of Religious Thought,
          Behavior, and Morphology

    Todd Tremlin
     
  5. Rethinking Naturalness: Modes of Religiosity and Religion in the
          Round

    Matt Day
     

Part II: Testing the Modes Theory

  1. In the Empirical Mode: Evidence Needed for the Modes of
          Religiosity Theory

    Justin Barrett
     
  2. Memory and Analogical Thinking in High-Arousal Rituals

    Rebekah A. Richert, Harvey Whitehouse, and Emma Stewart
     

Part III: Wider Applications

  1. Religious Conversion and Modes of Religiosity

    Ilkka Pyysiäinen
     
  2. Charisma, Tradition and Ritual: A Cognitive Approach to Magical
          Agency

    Jesper Sorensen
     
  3. Why Religions Develop Free Will Problems

    D. Jason Slone
     

Conclusion

Harvey Whitehouse
 


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