Debray, Régis
decision-making
deconstructionism
deism
delegated authority
Dembski, William
DeMint, Jim
democracy
belief in
in Iraq
misinformation as enemy of
mutual trust in
putting first allegiance to
as sacred value
sacrifices made for
Statue of Liberty as symbol of
subversion of
demons
denominations
Descartes, René
design
Argument from Design
Intelligent Design
long-term stabilities of environment in
in religion
as taking place off line
âdesignoids,â
desires
de Sousa, Ronald
Deus
Deus sive Natura
Development as Freedom (Sen)
Devil, the. See Satan
Devilâs Chaplain, A (Dawkins)
Devilâs Share, The (Rougement)
De Vries, Peter
diabolical lie
Diagoras
dialogue
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion(Hume)
Diamond, Jared
Dianetics (Hubbard)
diaries, prayer compared with
Diaz, Cameron
Dicrocelium dendriticum
dictators, loyalty to
diet
differential replication
in cultural transmission
fitness as capacity for
in group selection
and phenomena exceeding the functional
digitization
dinosaurs
disconfirmation, systematic invulnerability to
diseases
agriculture in spread of
See also healing
Disneyâs Magic Kingdom of Allah
disproof, systematic invulnerability to
Disraeli, Benjamin
dissection of human cadavers
distraction displays
divination
divine essences
divorce
DNA
doctrine
dogs
dogwood
Dollar, Dr. Creflo
dolphins
Domenici, Pete
domesticated plants and animals
âDominus Iesus: On the Unicity and
Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and
the Churchâ (Ratzinger)
donations
Dostoevski, Fyodor
double agents
doxology
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
drawing a straight line
drugs
Druze
dualism
Dulles, Avery Cardinal
Dumboâs magic feather
Dunbar, Robin
Duprés, John
Durham, William
Durkheim, Emil
Eagleton, Terry
Easterbrook, Gregg
Easter Bunny
eating disorders among Muslim women
E. coli
ecology
economic forecasting
âeconomic resource managementâ hypothesis
economics
neuro-
rational choice theory
supply-side
ecoterrorism
ecstasy, religious
ectosymbionts
ecumenism
Eddy, Mary Baker
education
as most important investment in children
religious
skepticism and
for young Muslims
e © mc2
eidetic imagery
Einstein, Albert
élan vital
electricity generation, atmospheric effects of
elephants
Eliade, Mircea
Elizabeth II, Queen
Ellington, Duke
Ellis, Fiona
El Niño
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
âEmperorâs New Clothes, Theâ
empirical argument for existence of God
endangered species
End Days movement
End of Faith, The (Harris)
End of the World
endosymbionts
Enlightenment, the
Ensign, John
entrance examination for scientists
studying religion
environmental regularities
Epimenides
Episcopalianism
episodic memory
error-correcting code-reading systems
Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Locke)
essences, divine
eternal (everlasting) life
Eternal Recurrence
âeumerdificationâ
Eurocentrism
European Museum of Roman Catholicism
evangelicals
Evans-Pritchard, Edward
Evening Star
everlasting (eternal) life
evil
Argument from Evil
and diabolical lies
supernatural agents
and transcendent values
Evil Eye
evolution
Bible and
coevolution
conditions for
convergent
Disraeliâs response to
as fostering the good
as âonly a theoryâ
of phenomena that apparently exceed the functional
as about processes that almost never happen
Roman Catholic Church on
scientific evidence for
social scientists as suspicious of
underpinnings of religion
See also cultural evolution; natural selection
evolutionary biology
and classification
as glamour discipline
interpretation in
as âjust another religionâ
as making the familiar strange
as not a religion
See also evolution
evolutionary psychology
existence of God, arguments for
explanations, religion providing
extrasensory perception
eye, design of
eye spots on butterfly wings
Faber, M. D.
fairy tales
faith
as âbelieving what you know ainât soâ
blind
faith (cont.)
and credal athleticism
mysteries understood through
proving our
religion distinguished from
unquestioning
âwhat everyone knowsâ as based on
faith-based initiatives
Faith Seeking (Turner)
âfake it till you make itâ
falsehoods, benefits from belief in
Family (Fellowship Foundation)
âfamily valuesâ
fanaticism
âfan loyaltyâ
fantasy
fasting
fats, craving for
fatwas
fear
of God
of heights
Feldman, Marcus
Fellowship Foundation (Family)
female selection
female shapes
feminism
Feynman, Richard
Fides et Ratio (John Paul II)
Fifth Amendment
fifth-order intentionality
Finke, Roger
Finnish language
firms, religious organizations as
First Amendment
First Cause
fish, schooling of
/>
fitness
defined
differential
frequency-dependent
group
happiness contrasted with
of memes
pearls and
of religion
religion as fostering
flattery
Fleming, Ian
flipping a coin
flocking of birds
flu season of 2003â2004
flying carpets
folklore
folk medicine
folk music
folk processes
folk psychology
folk religion
design influences of
as practical know-how
reflection entering into
as seamless part of life
transition to organized religion
wild memes of
former religions
formulas, believing versus understanding
Foucault, Michel
foxes
franchises
Frank, Robert
Franklin, Benjamin
Franklin, C. L.
freedom
Freedom Evolves (Dennett)
freedom of religion
free-floating rationale
for childrenâs obedience to parents
for culturally transmitted designs
for curiosity
for divination
for liking for sweets
for money
represented rationales replacing
for romantic love
for witnessing
free love
free riders
freethinkers
free will
frequency-dependent fitness
Freud, Sigmund
fruit
Frum, John
Fry, Christopher
full-access agents
functionalism
fundamentalism
future, anticipating the
Future of an Illusion, The (Freud)
Gaia hypothesis
gambling
Gauchet, Marcel
âgayâ
Geertz, Clifford
Geisteswissenschaften
General Motors
genes
boundary conditions for
for Catholicism
cultural transmission contrasted with
cultural transmission mimicking transmission by
gene centrism versus external continuities
âgod geneâ
identity of
interplay between cultural transmission and transmission by
memes compared with
refinement of
for religion
in sexual reproduction
transcending imperatives of
Genesis 2:21
genetic engineering
geofacts
Georgia
germs, knowledge of
Gibson, Mel
Gintis, Herbert
Global League of Religions
global warming
Gnostic Gospels
God (gods)
accepting inferior status to invisible
arguments for existence of
as authorless
belief in
believing in belief in
concept transformed
as Dealmaker
in definition of religion
in divination
exchange relations with
as Father
Freud on philosophers on
fundamental incomprehensibility of
âgod centerâ in the brain
âgod geneâ
godless religions
humor about
as intentional object
as Lawgiver
love of
making sure good things happen
in natural religion
omniscience of
personal
as Policeman
as role model
sacrifices to
spectrum of
supernatural versus divine essence
See also anthropomorphism
Gödelâs Theorem
âGod-fearingâ
God Gene, The (Hamer)
Golden Rule
âGoldilocksâ
Goldwyn, Samuel
good deeds
good intentions
Good Tricks
Gortner, Marjoe
âgo to fixationâ
Gould, Stephen Jay
Grafton, Anthony
grandchildren
Grandin, Temple
Grassley, Charles
gravity
Greatest Story Ever Told, The (film)
Great Santa Claus Catastrophe of 1985
greedy reductionisms
Greek language, linguistic shifts in
Ground of All Being
groups
ant colony versus corporate models of
concerns generated by living in
See also team spirit
group selection
guilds
gulls
Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond)
gurus
hadith literature
Hagia Sofia
Hail Mary pass
hajj
Halloween
Hamas
Hamer, Dean
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
handaxes, Acheulean
Handel, George Frideric
happiness
Hare Krishna
Harris, Sam
Harry Potter stories
haruspicy
Harvard Medical School
healing
miraculous cures
by shamans
health, religion as improving
healthy-minded people
Heath, Chip
heaven
heights, fear of
hell
hepatoscopy
herbs, medicinal
heresy
hermeneutics
Higher Power
high-tension religions
Hinduism
historical arguments for existence of God
HIV
Hobbes, Thomas
Holbach, Baron dâ
Holmes, Sherlock
holy soil
homosexuality
Hubbard, L. Ron
humanities
Human Relations Area File
human rights
Hume, David
humility
Humphrey, Nicholas
hunter-gatherers
hurt feelings
âhygieneâ programs
hyperactive agent detection devices (HADDs)
hypnosis
gene for hypnotizability
impromptu
in ritual healing
by shamans
hypocrisy
ideals
ideas
competition between
as created in minds
devotion to
lineages of
marketplace of
ideology
ignorance
as bliss
as default condition of human race
enforced
ignorance about
imposing
as our worst enemy
right to remain in
ijtihad
illusions, comforting
imagination
imams
Immaculate Reception
immortality of the soul
immunity
imperialism, scientific
imperialist universalism
imprinting
incommensurability
incomprehensibility
indeterminacy of radical translation
indoctrination
Indo-European languages
ineffability
&nb
sp; inerrant interpretation of sacred texts
infants
crying
imprinting in
interest in speech
mortality rates
infectious diseases
infertile women, prayer helping
infidels
influenza
infomercials
information
absence of
enough to be worth copying
memes as packets of
misinformation
outside
overload
parental transmission of
psychological effects diminished by
rising tide of
about sex
strategic
informed consent
In Gods We Trust (Atran)
Inhofe, James
initiation rites
inquisitiveness
insects
nuptial gifts of
See also ants
instincts
institutions, preserving
instrumental value
intellectual property rights
Intelligent Design
intentional objects
intentional stance
and double agents
as practical necessity
and social interaction
spiritual and mythological agents
intentional systems. See intentional stance
interdisciplinary collaboration
Internet
interpretation
intrinsic value
Inuit
invisible bananas
invulnerability to arrows
Iraq
Ireland
âIrish Washerwomanâ (jig)
Isfahan, mosques of
âIs God in our Genes?â (Time magazine)
Islam
age of
on alcohol
on apostasy
delegated authority in
disgust with modern culture
eating disorders among women
education for young Muslims
and fanatics
God becoming more abstract and depersonalized in
ijtihad
Islamism
keeping girls and women uneducated
on life after death
meaning of islam,
moderates versus extremists
muezzins in
as multinational
proving faith in
religious art of
sacrifices on behalf of religion in
and terrorism
Israel
Istanbul, mosques of
Jablonka, Eva
Jack the Ripper
Jacob, François
James, William
James Bond novels
Jansen, Johannes
Jarawas
Jaynes, Julian
jazz
Jefferson, Thomas
Jehovah (Yahweh)
Jeni, Rich
Jesuits
Jesus of Nazareth
jihad (holy war)
Jivaro
Job
John Frum Day
John Paul II, Pope
Johnson, Virginia
jokes
Jonestown
Joshua Judges Ruth (Lovett)
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Journal of Cognition and Culture
Journal of Reproductive Medicine
journals, interdisciplinary
Judaism
age of
on apostasy
debate encouraged in
devotion to an idea in
God becoming more abstract and depersonalized in
kosher laws
moderates versus extremists in
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