The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior - Voland, Eckart; Schiefenhövel, Wulf.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
Evaluating the Evolutionary Status of Religiosity and Religiousnessreligiousness -- Gods, Gains, and Genes -- How Some Major Components of Religion Could Have Evolved by Natural Selection? -- The Correlated History of Social Organization, Moralitymorality , and Religion -- Is There a Particular Role for Ideational Aspects of Religions in Human Behavioral Ecology? -- Talk and Tradition: Why the Least Interesting Components of Religion May Be the Most Evolutionarily Important -- The Reproductive Benefits of Religious Affiliation -- The African Interregnum: The "Where," "When," and "Why" of the Evolution of Religion -- Explaining the Inexplicable: Traditional and Syncretistic Religiosity in Melanesia -- Authoritarianism,Religiousness,religiousness and Conservatismconservatism : Is "Obedience to Authority" the Explanation for Their Clustering, Universality and Evolution? -- Cognitive Foundations in the Development of a Religious Mind -- Religious Belief and Neurocognitive Processes of the Self -- Neurologic Constraints on Evolutionary Theories of Religion -- On Shared Psychological Mechanisms of Religiousnessreligiousness and Delusional Beliefs -- Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity -- The Religious System as Adaptive: Cognitive Flexibility, Public Displays, and Acceptance -- The Evolution of Evolutionary Theories of Religion -- Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion - What They Can and What They Cannot Explain (Yet).
Keywords: Evolutionary biology; Modern philosophy; Religion-Philosophy.; Anthropology; Religion; Evolutionary Biology; Modern Philosophy; Philosophy of Religion; Anthropology; Religious Studies, general