(Ebook) The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion by Yair Lior, Justin Lane ISBN 9781138331679, 9781032324234, 1138331678, 1032324236, 1170184458

(Ebook) The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion by Yair Lior, Justin Lane ISBN 9781138331679, 9781032324234, 1138331678, 1032324236, 1170184458

The past two decades have seen a growing interest in evolutionary and scientific approaches to religion.The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religionis an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting and emerging field. Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors the handbook pulls together scholarship in the following areas:• evolutionary psychology and the cognitive science of religion (CSR) • cultural evolution • the complementarity of evolutionary psychology, cognitive science and cultural evolution.Within these sections central issues, debates and problems are examined, including: Cliodynamics, cultural group selection, costly signaling, dual inheritance theory, literacy, transmitting narratives, prosociality, supernatural punishment, cognition and ritual, meme theory, fusion theory, sexual selection, agency detection, evoked culture, social brain hypothesis, theory of mind, developmental psychology, emergence theory, social learning, cultural cybernetics, cultural epidemiology, evolutionary and cultural psychology, memetics, by-product and adaptationist theories of religion, systems and information theory, and computer modeling. This Handbook is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies and anthropology. It will also be very useful to those in related fields, such as psychology, sociology of religion, cognitive biology, and evolutionary biology.