Further reading

For comprehensive accounts of evolutionary psychology:

Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby (eds), The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

David M. Buss, Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind, Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2004.

David M. Buss (ed.), The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2005.

An evolutionary psychologist’s attempt to explain away religiosity by invoking a theory of mind:

Jesse Bering, The God Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny and the Meaning of Life, London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2011.

For a balanced approach to the development of religion:

Nicholas Wade, The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures, New York: Penguin, 2009.

Accounts of Jungian psychology:

Carl Gustav Jung, Memories, Dreams, and Reflections, London: Flamingo, 1995.

Anthony Storr, The Essential Jung: Selected Writings, London: Fontana, 1973.

A neuroscientist’s approach to religious experiences:

Mario Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary, The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul, New York: HarperOne, 2007.

The free-will problem as seen from a neuroscientist’s perspective:

Peter Clarke, All in the Mind: Does Neuroscience Challenge Faith? Oxford: Lion Hudson, 2015.

Neuroscientists taking the view that mental states cause brain processes:

Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman, How God Changes Your Brain, New York: Ballantine Books, 2010.

Scholarly essays on the cognitive science of religion:

Fraser Watts and Léon Turner (eds), Evolution, Religion and Cognitive Science: Critical and Constructive Essays, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

There are many books on various approaches to the relationships between science and religion. Here is a short selection:

Ian Barbour, Religion in an Age of Science, London: SCM Press, 1990.

Paul Davies, The Mind of God: Science and the Search for Ultimate Meaning, London: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Mary Midgley, Beast and Man, London: Routledge, 2002.

John Polkinghorne, Reason and Reality: The Relationship between Science and Theology, London: SPCK, 1991.

W. Mark Richardson, Robert J. Russell, Philip Clayton and Kirk Wegter-McNelly (eds), Science and the Spiritual Quest: New Essays by Leading Scientists, London: Routledge, 2002.

Russell Stannard, The God Experiment, London: Faber & Faber, 1999.

Keith Ward, The Evidence for God: The Case for the Existence of the Spiritual Dimension, London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 2014.