I. Cognitive and Evolutionary Approaches to Religion: Bibliography

II. Neurobiology of Religious Experience: Select Bibliography

III. Internet Resources

I. Cognitive and Evolutionary Approaches to Religion: Bibliography

Andresen, Jensine, ed. Religion in mind: cognitive perspectives on religious belief, ritual, and experience. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Anttonen, Veikko. “Identifying the Generative Mechanisms of Religion: The Issue of Origin Revisited,” In Ilkka Pyysiänen and Veikko Anttonen. Current approaches in the cognitive science of religion. New York : Continuum, 2002, pp. 14-37.

Atran, Scott. In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002

Barrett, Justin L. "Exploring the natural foundations of religion." Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4(1) (January 2000): 29-34.

Barrett, Justin L. “Dumb Gods, Petitionary Prayer and the Cognitive Science of Religion,” In Ilkka Pyysiänen and Veikko Anttonen. Current approaches in the cognitive science of religion. New York : Continuum, 2002, pp. 93-109.

Barrett, Justin L. Why Would Anyone Believe in God? (Cognitive Science of Religion Series) Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2004.

Barrett, Justin L., and F. C. Keil. “Conceptualizing a non-natural entity: Anthropomorphism in god concepts.” Cognitive Psychology 31, (1996):219-247.

Boyer, Pascal. The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Boyer, P. “Evolution of the modern mind and the origins of culture: religious concepts as a limiting case.” In Carruthers, P. & Chamberlain, A. (eds.), Evolution and the human mind: Modularity, language and meta-cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 93-112.

Boyer, P. Religion explained: the evolutionary origins of religious thought. New York: Basic Books. 2001.

Boyer, P. “Why Do Gods and Spirits Matter at All?” In Ilkka Pyysiänen and Veikko Anttonen. Current approaches in the cognitive science of religion. New York : Continuum, 2002, pp. 68-92.

Buss, D. M. Evolutionary psychology: the new science of the mind. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999.

Carruthers, P. and Chamberlain, A. (eds.) Evolution and the human mind: Modularity, language and meta-cognition. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (1997). Evolutionary psychology: a primer. Santa Barbara, California.

Deacon, Terrence. The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain. New York: Norton, 1998.

Donald, Merlin. Origins of the Modern Mind:Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Consciousness. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. [Precis of Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition]

Donald, Merlin. A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001.

Dunbar, R., Knight, C. and Power, C. (eds.) The Evolution of Culture: an interdisciplinary review. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.

Guthrie, Stewart. Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Guthrie, Stewart, “Animal Animism: Evolutionary Roots of Religious Cognition,” In Ilkka Pyysiäinen and Veikko Anttonen, eds. Current approaches in the cognitive science of religion. New York : Continuum, 2002, pp. 38-67.

Jensen, Jeppe Sinding, “The Complex Worlds of Religion: Connecting Cultural and Cognitive Analysis,” In Ilkka Pyysiäinen and Veikko Anttonen, eds. Current approaches in the cognitive science of religion. New York : Continuum, 2002, pp. 203-228.

Johnson, Mark. Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Kamppinen, Matti. “Explaining Religion: Cognitive and Evolutionary Mechanisms,” In Ilkka Pyysiäinen and Veikko Anttonen, eds. Current approaches in the cognitive science of religion. New York : Continuum, 2002., pp. 260-270.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. “Toward an evolutionary psychology of religion and personality.” Journal of Personality, 67, 1999: 921-952.

Knight, Chris. “Ritual/speech coevolution: a solution to the problem of deception.” In J. R. Hurford, M. Studdert-Kennedy C. Knight (eds), Approaches to the Evolution of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 68-91.

Knight, Chris. “Sex and language as pretend-play,” In R. Dunbar, C. Knight, and C. Power. The Evolution of Culture: An Interdisciplinary View. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999, pp. 228-247.

Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. Philosophy in the Flesh. New York: Basic Books, 1999

Lawson, Thomas and Robert N. McCauley. “The Cognitive Representation of Religious Ritual Form: A Theory of Participants' Competence with Religious Ritual Systems,” In Ilkka Pyysiäinen and Veikko Anttonen, eds. Current approaches in the cognitive science of religion. New York : Continuum, 2002., pp. 153-176.

McCauley, Robert N. and E. Thomas Lawson. Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Malley, Brian. How the Bible Works: An Anthropological Study of Evangelical Biblicism.

Mithen, S. The Prehistory of the Mind: a search for the origins of art, religion and science. Thames & Hudson, London, 1996.

Mithen, S. ‘The Supernatural Beings of Prehistory and the External Symbolic Storage of Religious Ideas.’ In Renfrew, C. & Scarre, C. (eds.), Cognition and Material Culture: the Archaeology of Symbolic Storage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 97-106.

Mithen, S. ‘Symbolism and the Supernatural.’ In Dunbar, R., Knight, C. & Power,
C. (eds.), The Evolution of Culture: an interdisciplinary view. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999, pp.147-69.

Pyysiäinen, Ilkka. How Religion Works: Toward a New Cognitive Science of Religion. Cognition and Culture Book Series 1, Leiden: Brill, 2001.

Pyysiäinen, Ilkka, “Introduction: Cognition and Culture in the Construction of Religion,” In Ilkka Pyysiäinen and Veikko Anttonen, eds. Current approaches in the cognitive science of religion. New York : Continuum, 2002, pp. 1-14.

Pyysiäinen, Ilkka, “Religion and the Counter-Intuitive,” In Ilkka Pyysiäinen and Veikko Anttonen, eds. Current approaches in the cognitive science of religion. New York : Continuum, 2002., pp. 110-132.

Pyysiäinen, Ilkka. Magic, Miracles, and Religion: A Scientist's Perspective.

Pyysiäinen, Ilkka and Veikko Anttonen, eds. Current approaches in the cognitive science of religion. New York : Continuum, 2002.

Varela, F. J., E. Thompson and E. Rosch. The embodied mind: cognitive science and human experience. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991.

Whitehouse, Harvey. Arguments and icons : divergent modes of religiosity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Whitehouse, Harvey. “Implicit and Explicit Knowledge in the Domain of Ritual,” In Ilkka Pyysiäinen and Veikko Anttonen, eds. Current approaches in the cognitive science of religion. New York : Continuum, 2002, pp. 133-152.

Whitehouse, Harvey. Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission.

Whitehouse, Harvey and James Laidlaw. Ritual and Memory: Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion.

Whitehouse, Harvey and Luther Martin. Theorizing Religions Past: Archaeology, History, and Cognition.

Whitehouse, Harvey and Robert N. McCauley. Mind and Religion: Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religion.

Wilcox, Sherman. “The Invention and Ritualization of Language.” In Origins of Language: What Nonhuman Primates Can Tell Us (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series). Barbara J. King, ed. New York: School of American Research Press, 1999.

Wilson, David Sloan. Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

II. Neurobiology of Religious Experienc: Select Bibliography

Andersen , Jensine and Robert K. C. Forman. Cognitive models and spiritual maps: interdisciplinary explorations of religious experience. New York: Imprint Academic, 2000.

d’Aquili, Eugene and Andrew B. Newberg. The mystical mind : probing the biology of religious experience. Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, 1999.

Austin, James H. Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998.

Clottes, Jean and David Lewis-Williams. The Shamans of Prehistory: Trance and Magic in the Painted Caves. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.

Lewis-Williams, David. The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2002.

Newberg, A., Alavi, A., Baime, M., Pourdehnad, M., Santanna, J., & d'Aquili, E.). “The measurement of regional cerebral blood flow during the complex cognitive task of meditation: a preliminary SPECT study.” Psychiatry Research, 106(2), 2001:113-122.

Newberg, Andrew and Eugene d'Aquili. “The Neuropsychology of Religious and Spiritual Experience.” Journal of Consciousness Studies 7.11-12 (2000): 251-66.

Newberg, Andrew and Eugene d’Aquili. Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001.

Pearson, James L. Shamanism and the ancient mind : a cognitive approach to archaeology. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2002.

Persinger, Michael. “Out-of-Body-Like experiences are More Probable in People With Elevated Complex Partial Epileptic-Like Signs During Periods of Enhanced Geomagnetic Activity: A Nonlinear Effect.” Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1995, Aug; 80, 563-569

Persinger, Michael. “‘I would kill in God's name:’ role of sex, weekly church attendance, report of a religious experience, and limbic lability.” Perceptual Motor Skills. 1997, Aug; 85(1):128-30.

Persinger, Michael and S. Koren. “Experiences of spiritual visitation and impregnation: potential induction by frequency-modulated transients from an adjacent clock.” Perceptual Motor Skills. 2001, Feb; 92(1):35-6.

Ramachandran, V. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind. New York: Quill, 1999.

Wallis, Robert. Shamans/Neo-Shamans: Ecstasies, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans. New York: Routledge, 2003.

III. Internet Resources

Bibliography of Cognitive Science and Ethics

Cognitive Science, Humanities, and the Arts

CogWeb - Cognitive Cultural Studies

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