From the Book - First edition.
Introduction: Pluralism and complexity in the evolutionary cognitive science of religion / Léon Turner
The cognitive science of religion / Ilkka Pyysiäinen
Biologically evolutionary explanations of religious belief / Michael Ruse
The evolution of divine and human minds : evolutionary psychology, the cognitive study of religion and theism / Aku Visala
Extending evolutionary accounts of religion beyond the mind : religions as adaptive systems / Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Omar Sultan Haque, and Richard Sosis
Skilful engagement and the 'effort after value' : an axiological theory of the orgins of religion / Nathaniel F. Barrett
Religion and the emergence of differentiated cognition / Fraser Watts
From empathy to embodied faith? : interdisciplinary perspectives on the evolution of religion / J. Wentzel van Huyssteen
Neither friends nor enemies : the complex relationship between cognitive and humanistic accounts of religious belief / Léon Turner
The cognitive science of religion from an anthropological perspective / Timothy Jenkins
Religion : the dynamics of cultural adaptations / Lesley Newson and Peter Richerson
Artificial intelligence models of religious evolution / William Sims Bainbridge
Concluding reflections / Malcolm Jeeves.