The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion

1 Introduction: Evolutionary Approaches to Religion Yair Lior and Justin Lane PART 1 Evolutionary Psychology 2 Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology Justin Lane and Yair Lior 3 Child Development: The Effects of Ritual on Cognitive Development Veronika Rybanska 4 Cognition and the History of Religion Luther H. Martin 5 Evoked Culture: Cognitive Mechanisms of Religious Belief and Behavior E. Thomas Lawson 6 Sacred Values: Identity Fusion, Devoted Actor Theory, and Extremism Kayla Bonnin and Justin Lane 7 Sexual Selection: Long- term Mating Strategies and Religion James A. Van Slyke 8 Minimally Counterintuitive Concepts: A Unified Theory in the Cognitive Science of Religion? Muhammad Afzal Upal 9 Faces in Clouds and Voices in the Wind: Anthropomorphism, Agency Detection and Human Cognition Stewart E. Guthrie and Michaela Porubanova 10 Social Brain Hypothesis: Dunbar’s Number and the Stability of Religious Social Networks Michael J. Gantley, John P. McKeown and Ángel V. Jiménez 11 Atheism: A New Evolutionary Perspective on Non-Belief Thomas J. Coleman, Kyle J. Messick, and Valerie van Mulukom 12 Personality and Psychology in the Evolution of Religion Igor Mikloušić and Boris Mlačić 13 Hazard Precaution: Examining the Possible Adaptive Value of Ritualized Behavior Martin Lang and Radim Chvaja PART 2 Cultural Evolution 14 Introduction to Cultural Evolution Armin W. Geertz 15 Cultural Group Selection and the Evolution of Religion Taylor Davis 16 Costly Signaling: The ABCs of Signaling Theory and Religion Richard Sosis 17 Credibility Enhancing Displays (CREDs): When They Work and When They Don’t Hugh Turpin and Jonathan A. Lanman 18 Dual Inheritance Theory: Religion, Narrative, and Selection Francesco Ferretti and Ines Adornetti 19 The Co- evolution of Religion and Literate Culture Daniel Mullins 20 Religion and Prosociality: The Naturalization of Norms Connor Wood 21 Big Gods Theory: The Cultural Evolution of Social Complexity and Prosocial Religions Yair Lior 22 The Evolution of Ritual, Cognition, and Modes of Religiosity During the Agricultural Transition Michael J. Gantley 23 Meme Theory Justin Lane 24 Institutional Evolution: The Dynamics of Religious Formations Jonathan H. Turner and Armin W. Geertz 25 Behavioral Ecology: Niche Construction and Religion John Balch PART 3 Synthetic Approaches 26 Synthetic Approaches: At the Intersection of Evolutionary Psychology and Cultural Evolution Yair Lior and Justin Lane 27 Religion Emerges: The Evolution of Language and Religion Paul Cassell 28 Cultural Cybernetics of Religion: Computation and Information Transmission in Religion Justin Lane 29 Major Transitions in Cultural Evolution: A Dynamic Systems Approach Yair Lior 30 Cultural Epidemiology: Attractors and Representations Radu Umbreș 31 Differentiating Processes of Biological, Cognitive, and Cultural Selection: Implications for the Adaptation/ Byproduct Debate Lee Kirkpatrick 32 Synthesis and Explanatory Pluralism Wesley J. Wildman and David Rohr 33 Concluding Reflections: An Evolutionary Approach to Comparative Religion William E. Paden Index