دانلود کتاب The Evolution of Religion, Religiosity and Theology: A Multi-Level and Multi-Disciplinary Approach

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Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents List of figures List of tables Preface List of contributors Introduction: A Multilevel and Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding Religion and Its Evolution Part 1 Evolutionary Biology 1 Cultural Evolution, Biology and the Case of Religion 2 The Evolutionary Biology of Religion-Specific Beliefs and Interreligious Conflict 3 Sex and the Evolution of Spirituality 4 The Biological Basis for Religion and Religion’s Evolutionary Origins Part 2 Philosophy of Language, Psychology and Neuroscience 5 A History of the Evolution of Religion: From Religion to Religiosity to the Processes of Believing 6 The Processes of Believing in Religion’s Evolution: A Cognitive Neuroscience Hypothesis 7 Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in Sensing the Divine: One Foundational Role in Religion’s Evolution 8 Awe as a Meaning-Making Emotion: On the Evolution of Awe and the Origin of Religions 9 Whence This Need for Salvation?: Childhood Corporal Punishment and the Cultural Evolution of Religious Myth Part 3 Theology 10 What a Theological Appropriation of Cognitive Linguistics’ Blending Theory Brings to a Scientific Understanding of the Evolution of Religion 11 The Evolution of Religiosity: A Theologian’s View 12 Neoteny and Homo Religiosus: Brain Evolution and Emergence of the Capacity for Spirituality 13 Emotions and the Evolution of the Belief in God Part 4 Anthropology 14 The Evolution of Hunter-Gatherer Religion: Issues and Debates among the San of Southern Africa 15 Bones, Pigments, Art and Symbols: Archaeological Evidence for the Origins of Religion 16 Every Kingdom Divided Against Itself: The Evolution of Christianity Conclusion Index