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Index
abortion
Abrahamic religions
God becoming more abstract and
depersonalized in
similarities between
See also Christianity; Islam; Judaism
absolutes
Absolute Unitary Being
academic treatment of religion
accident
Acheulean handaxes
acquired tastes
âactions speak louder than words,â
Acton, Lord
Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of
Religion (Stark and Finke)
acute religion
Adam and Eve
addiction
Addison, Joseph
adoration, God as object of
adultery
advertising
shamanic
truth in
Aesop
After God: The Future of Religion (Cupitt)
agents
in animism
full-access
gods as
self-interest of
spiritual and mythological
agnosticism
agriculture
AIDS
Ainslie, George
Akshardham temple
alarm calls
Albright, Carol Rausch
alcohol
addiction to
children and
evolution of desire for
Muslim attitude toward
Prohibition
variation in ability to metabolize
Alcoholics Anonymous
Algeria
Alhambra
Allah
allegiance to sports teams
Almighty, the
alphabets
Al Qaeda
altricial species
altruism
American Religious Identification Survey
(ARIS)
amnestics
ancestors
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andersen, Hans Christian
animals
alarm calls of
alcohol consumed by
cruelty to
domesticated
fantasy lacking in
genetic imperatives governing
laboratory
traditions of
See also birds; insects; mammals
animate motion
animism
anomalies, counterintuitive
Anselm, Saint
anthrax
Anthropic Principle
Anthropologist on Mars, An (Sacks)
anthropology
as about behavior, not belief
divisions in
informants as not always expert
relativism in
in science studies
subjects affected by
unenviable reputation of
anthropomorphism
as appealing
and arguments for existence of God
shift from
tension with other attributes
antiglobalist terrorism
anti-Semitism
ants
colonies
Dicrocelium dendriticum parasitizing
âanything goes,â
Apartheid
apes
curiosity of
fantasy lacking in
groups of
as threatened with extinction
See also chimpanzees
apologetics
apophaticism
apostasy
architecture, religious
Argument from Design
Argument from Evil
arguments for existence of God
ARIS (American Religious Identification
Survey)
armed forces, religious fanatics as most reliable in
arms races
Armstrong, Karen
Armstrong, Louis
arrows, invulnerability to
art
artifice in
as making the familiar strange
religious
why other species donât have
See also music
artifice, recognizing
Artificial Life
artificial self-replicators
Ashbrook, James B.
Asians
astrology
astronomy
Aswan Dam
atheism, atheists
and attitude toward the sacred
avoiding complicity in religion
âbelieversâ as not
believing in belief in God
as bright
electing atheist to office
examination welcomed by
as lacking values
and moral commitment
about most gods
pre-emptive disqualification of
reading Bible as literature in
sacred values in
of scholars of religion
on scientific research on religion
of Spinoza
Spong associated with
atomism
atoms, knowledge of
Atran, Scott
attention, as limited
attractive nuisance doctrine
Auden, W. H.
Aum Shinrikyo
au naturel
autism
Avital, Eytan
awe
ax, cutting ed
ge of
baby face
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Baghwan
Baker Street Irregulars
Bakker, Jim
Baktamans
Baldwin effect
Balkin, J. M.
Barrett, Justin
Barro, Robert J.
Barth, Fredrik
Basque shepherds
bears
beaver dams
âbedside manner,â
beetle box of Wittgenstein
Being
Absolute Unitary
greater than which nothing can be
conceived
Ground of All
belief(s)
belief in
division of doxastic labor
about intentional objects
as intentional stance element
metaphysical
versus opinion
political
professing
regretting
religious belief not always
religious versus secular
in science
in spiritual entities
uniformity of profession of
weak sense of
why what you believe matters
See also faith; skepticism
Bell, Chris
belomancy
Benedict XVI, pope
benign neglect
Benny, Jack
Benson, Herbert
Benson, Robert
Bering, J. M.
bias
and attention-seeking
in study of human phenomena
in survey research
techniques for preventing
Bible
and evolution
as fittest of texts
on Godâs existence
as literature
prophecies in
as proving anything
as salable manufactured product
Bierce, Ambrose
bifocals
Big Brother
Bigfoot
biofacts
bio-informatics
biological motion
biology
stickers on textbooks
See also evolutionary biology
birds
distraction displays of
flocking of
leks of
parental care by
runaway sexual selection in
bitmaps
black magic
Blackmore, Susan
Black Muslims
blasphemy
blind spot
blinking
blues, the
bluffing
boatbuilding
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Bonner, John Tyler
Book of Common Prayer
Book of Mormon
bootstrapping
Border collies
born-again Christians
bowerbirds
Bowles, Samuel
Boyd, Robert
Boyer, Pascal
Boyer, Peter
bragging
brains
alcoholâs effect on
of domestic animals
getting information imprinted in
âgod centerâ in
human versus chimpanzee
as language processors
memes and structures of
memory
minds and
parasites in
understanding itself
brainwashing
brand loyalty
brand names
Breakdown of Will (Ainslie)
breeding
bright
âBright Stuff, Theâ (Dennett)
broccoli, genetically transmitted distaste for
Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevski)
Brown, Dan
Buddhism
Bulbulia, Joseph
burial of the dead
Burkert, Walter
Burns, Conrad
Bush, George H. W.
butterflies, eye spots on wings of
cadavers, dissection of human
Calvary Chapel
cancer
Cannon, Walter B.
canon
card games, teaching
cargo cults
Carvey, Dana
catastrophes
averted, as anticlimax
ignoring
technologies for causing global
catechisms
cathedrals
Catherine the Great
Catholic Church. See Roman Catholic Church
Catholocism gene
cats
cauliflower, genetically transmitted distaste for
causation
Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca
celebrity trials
cell phone ringing
center of the Earth
cephalopods
ceremony. See ritual
ceroscopy
certainties, moral
chain letters
chance
charismatic leaders
charity
cherry-picking
chess
chiefdoms
childbirth
children
and information about sex
loss of innocence in
obedience to parents by
Santa Claus belief in
understanding parentsâ religious avowals
what shall we tell them
See also infants
chimpanzees
groups of
human ancestors and
and language
as natural psychologists
second-order intentionality in
tools of
China
chocolate cake recipe
choosing a major in college
Christianity
age of
on apostasy
born-again
and cargo cults
devotion to an idea in
End Days movement
evangelical
faith as feature of
and Family (Fellowship Foundation)
fundamentalist
God becoming more abstract and
depersonalized in
moderates versus extremists in
as multinational
as path to peace
puritanical
reaction to blasphemy in
religious art of
sacrifices on behalf of religion in
selection of sources in
spreading the Word in
terrorism in
See also Roman Catholic Church
Christian Science
Christmas carols
chromosomes
chronic religion
chronometers
church and state, separation of
church construction
âchurchianity,â
Churchill, Winston
church membership
cilantro, genetically transmitted distaste for
Cinderella
civil-rights movement
clairvoyance
clams
âcleanerâ fish
Cloak, F. T.
cloning
clouds
coalitions
coals, walking on bed of
Cobb County (Georgia)
codes
codons
Coe, Douglas
coevolution
cohesiveness, group
coin flipping
Collapse (Diamond)
Columbia University
Comaneci, Nadia
comfort, religion as providing
commensalism
common cold
common knowledge
common wisdom
communism
competition
as condition of natural selection
folk religionâs preser
vation in face of
happy accidents amplified by
between ideas
in memory
between religious groups
computationalism
computers
computer viruses
concepts
conceptual revisions
condoms
confidence
conflict
religion as exploiting
religion as source of
Confucianism
conjuring
Consciousness Explained (Dennett)
consent
Constitution of the United States
control systems
controversies, scientific
convergent evolution
conversion
cooperation
copying
cross-species
in cultural transmission
genetic
high-fidelity
multiplexing for ensuring fidelity in
ritual for improving
See also replication
copyright
Corinthians
corporations
corpses
corruption
Cosmological Argument
cost-benefit calculations
costs, high entry and exit
counterintuitive anomalies
coyotes
creation ex nihilo
creationism
Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions (Burkert)
credal athleticism
creed revision
Cro-Magnon burial sites
Cronk, Lee
cross-species meme-copying
cruelty to animals
crusades
crying, infant
cuckoos
cui bono?
cults
cargo
death of
on end of the world
as high-tension
satanic
cultural evolution
as Darwinian
memes versus psychological constraints in
of moral thinking
of shamanism
social science questions recast in terms of
See also cultural transmission
cultural health
cultural replicators
See also memes
cultural software
Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology (Balkin)
cultural transmission
of Acheulean handaxes
of design
of divination
of folk religion
interplay between genetic transmission
and
of language
of money
parental training as
of religion
of ritual
of shamanism
stewardship for
variation in
Cupitt, Don
cures, miraculous
curiosity
cute, babies as
dairy-herding
DâAquili, Eugene
Darwin, Charles
Darwinian evolution. See evolution
Darwinâs Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society (Wilson)
Darwinâs Dangerous Idea (Dennett)
Davies, Paul
Da Vinci Code, The (Brown)
Dawkins, Richard
Dead Sea Scrolls
death
intentional stance and dealing with
life after
as natural
death penalty
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