Library
An Archive of Key Publications on the Evolution of Religion
Atran, S. (2004) In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Atran, S. & Norenzayan, A. (2004) Religion’s evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion. Behavioural and Brain Sciences 27, 713-730.
Barrett, J. L. (2000) Exploring the natural foundations of religion. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4, 29-34.
Boehm, C. (2008) A biocultural evolutionary exploration of supernatural sanctioning. In The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques (ed. J. Bulbulia, R. Sosis, C. Genet, R. Genet, E. Harris & K. Wyman), pp. 143-150. Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.
Boyer, P. (2001) Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought. New York: Basic Books.
Bulbulia, J. (2004) Religious Costs as Adaptations that Signal Altruistic Intention. Evolution and Cognition 10, 19-38.
Bulbulia, J., Sosis, R., Genet, C., Genet, R., Harris, E. & Wyman, K. (ed.) (2008) The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques. Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.
D’Aquili, E. G. & Newberg, A. B. (1999) The Mystical Mind: Probing the Biology of Religious Experience. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.
Dawkins, R. (2006) The God Delusion. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Dennett, D. C. (2006) Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. New York: Viking.
Guthrie, S. E. (1993) Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion. New York: Oxford University Press.
Harris, S. (2004) The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason. New York ; London: W.W. Norton & Co.
Irons, W. (2001) Religion as a hard-to-fake sign of commitment. In Evolution and the capacity for commitment (ed. R. Nesse), pp. 292-309. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Knight, N., Sousa, P., Barrett, J. L. & Atran, S. (2004) Children’s attributions of beliefs to humans and God: Cross-cultural evidence. Cognitive Science 28, 117-126.
McNamara, P. (ed.) (2006) Where God and Science Meet: How Brain and Evolutionary Studies Alter Our Understanding of Religion (three volumes). Westport, CT: Praeger Perspectives.The supernatural and natural selection; the evolution of religion.
McKay, R. T. & Dennett, D. C. (2009) The evolution of misbelief. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32, 493–561
Steadman, L. B. and Palmer, C. T. (2008). The Supernatural and Natural Selection: Religion and Evolutionary Success. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
Whitehouse, H. (2008) Cognitive Evolution and Religion; Cognition and Religious Evolution. In The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques (ed. J. Bulbulia, R. Sosis, C. Genet, R. Genet, E. Harris & K. Wyman). Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.
Wilson, D. S. (2002) Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Wilson, D. S. (2005) Testing Major Evolutionary Hypotheses about Religion with a Random Sample. Human Nature 16, 419-446.
Notes:
Abstracts for books are taken from publishers websites.
Abstracts often not available for chapters within edited books.