Breaking the Spell

by Daniel C. Dennett

  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

  “designoids,”

  desires

  de Sousa, Ronald

  Deus

  Deus sive Natura

  Development as Freedom (Sen)

  Devil, the. See Satan

  Devil’s Chaplain, A (Dawkins)

  Devil’s 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

  Disney’s 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

  “Dominus Iesus: On the Unicity and

  Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and

  the Church” (Ratzinger)

  donations

  Dostoevski, Fyodor

  double agents

  doxology

  Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

  drawing a straight line

  drugs

  Druze

  dualism

  Dulles, Avery Cardinal

  Dumbo’s 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

  “economic resource management” 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

  “Emperor’s New Clothes, The”

  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

  “eumerdification”

  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

  Disraeli’s response to

  as fostering the good

  as “only a theory”

  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 “just another religion”

  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 “believing what you know ain’t so”

  blind

  faith (cont.)

  and credal athleticism

  mysteries understood through

  proving our

  religion distinguished from

  unquestioning

  “what everyone knows” as based on

  faith-based initiatives

  Faith Seeking (Turner)

  “fake it till you make it”

  falsehoods, benefits from belief in

  Family (Fellowship Foundation)

  “family values”

  fanaticism

  “fan loyalty”

  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
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  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 2003–2004

  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 children’s 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

  “gay”

  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

  “god gene”

  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

  “god center” in the brain

  “god gene”

  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

  Gödel’s Theorem

  “God-fearing”

  God Gene, The (Hamer)

  Golden Rule

  “Goldilocks”

  Goldwyn, Samuel

  good deeds

  good intentions

  Good Tricks

  Gortner, Marjoe

  “go to fixation”

  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 d’

  Holmes, Sherlock

  holy soil

  homosexuality

  Hubbard, L. Ron

  humanities

  Human Relations Area File

  human rights

  Hume, David

  humility

  Humphrey, Nicholas

  hunter-gatherers

  hurt feelings

  “hygiene” 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

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  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

  “Irish Washerwoman” (jig)

  Isfahan, mosques of

  “Is God in our Genes?” (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