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The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Evaluating the Evolutionary Status of Religiosity and Religiousnessreligiousness
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    Chapter 3 Gods, Gains, and Genes
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    Chapter 4 How Some Major Components of Religion Could Have Evolved by Natural Selection?
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    Chapter 5 The Correlated History of Social Organization, Moralitymorality , and Religion
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    Chapter 6 Is There a Particular Role for Ideational Aspects of Religions in Human Behavioral Ecology?
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    Chapter 7 Talk and Tradition: Why the Least Interesting Components of Religion May Be the Most Evolutionarily Important
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    Chapter 8 The Reproductive Benefits of Religious Affiliation
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    Chapter 9 The African Interregnum: The “Where,” “When,” and “Why” of the Evolution of Religion
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    Chapter 10 Explaining the Inexplicable: Traditional and Syncretistic Religiosity in Melanesia
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    Chapter 11 Authoritarianism,Religiousness,religiousness and Conservatismconservatism : Is “Obedience to Authority” the Explanation for Their Clustering, Universality and Evolution?
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    Chapter 12 Cognitive Foundations in the Development of a Religious Mind
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    Chapter 13 Religious Belief and Neurocognitive Processes of the Self
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    Chapter 14 Neurologic Constraints on Evolutionary Theories of Religion
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    Chapter 15 On Shared Psychological Mechanisms of Religiousnessreligiousness and Delusional Beliefs
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    Chapter 16 Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity
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    Chapter 17 The Religious System as Adaptive: Cognitive Flexibility, Public Displays, and Acceptance
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    Chapter 18 The Evolution of Evolutionary Theories of Religion
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    Chapter 19 Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion – What They Can and What They Cannot Explain (Yet)
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Title
The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior
Published by
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, January 2009
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-00128-4
ISBNs
978-3-64-200127-7, 978-3-64-200128-4, 978-3-64-226016-2
Authors

Voland, Eckart, Schiefenhövel, Wulf

Editors

Eckart Voland, Wulf Schiefenhövel

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Country Count As %
Austria 3 3%
United Kingdom 2 2%
United States 2 2%
Germany 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Croatia 1 <1%
Unknown 104 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 20%
Professor 18 16%
Researcher 16 14%
Student > Master 16 14%
Student > Bachelor 9 8%
Other 29 25%
Unknown 5 4%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 37 32%
Social Sciences 21 18%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 18 16%
Arts and Humanities 11 9%
Philosophy 8 7%
Other 12 10%
Unknown 9 8%