Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture

Taylor & Francis

Introduction, Armin W. Geertz\nPart I Evolutionary Scenarios\n1. Whence Religion? How the Brain Constructs the World and What This Might Tell Us about the Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture, Armin W. Geertz\n2. Why \""Costly Signalling\"" Models of Religion Require Cognitive Psychology, Joseph Bulbulia\n3. The Prestige of the Gods: Evolutionary Continuities in the Formation of Sacred Objects, William E. Paden\n4. The Evolutionary Dynamics of Religious Systems: Laying the Foundations of a Network Model, Istv\u00E1n Czachesz\n5. Art as a Human Universal: An Adaptationist View, Ellen Dissanayake\n6. The Significance of the Natural Experience of a \u2018Non-Natural\u2019 World to the Question of the Origin of Religion, Donald Wiebe\n7. Religion and the Emergence of Human Imagination, Andreas Lieberoth\n8. The Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture: The Bowerbird Syndrome, Luther H. Martin\n9. The Will to Sacrifice: Sharing and Sociality in Humans, Apes, and Monkeys, Henrik H\u0h