Anthropology, cognitive science & psychology of religion
Created By: moc
Last Modified: 05/29/06
Link: E. B. Taylor and the anthropology of religion
Summary: by Benson Saler
Link: Anthropology of religion, magic & witchcraft
Summary: Rebecca L. Stein Frankel & Phillip L. Stein
Link: Shamanism as neurotheology & evolutionary psychology
Summary: by Michael Winkelman
Link: Ara Norenzayan Home Page
Summary: Director of the Culture and Cognition Lab at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Link: Religion's evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion
Summary: Atran & Norenzayan (2004). Behavioral & Brain Sciences 27: 713-770
Link: Religions & Evolutionary theory
Summary: A paper presented by James M. Dow at the 81st Central States Anthropological Society meeting, 2004
Link: Who wants to be a martyr?
Summary: Scott Atran, New York Times, May 5th, 2003
Link: Cognitive and Emotional Processes in the Cultural Transmission of Natural and Nonnatural Beliefs
Summary: Norenzayan & Atran, in "The Psychological Foundations of Culture".
Link: Memory and Mystery: The Cultural Selection of Minimally Counterintuitive Narratives
Summary: Norenzayan, Atran, Faulkner & Schaller (2006). Cognitive Science 30: 1-23
Link: Genesis of Suicide Terrorism
Summary: by Scott Atran (2003). Science 299: 1534-1539
Link: The Moral Logic and Growth of Suicide Terrorism
Summary: by Sott Atran, Washington Quarterly, Spring 2006
