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American Anthropological Association for the essay: Pierre Liénard and Pascal Boy er (2006), ‘Whence Collective Rituals? A Cultural Selection Model of Ritualized Behavior’, American Anthropologist, 108, pp. 814–27. Copyright © 2006 American Anthropological Association.
Brill Academic Publishers for the essays: Joseph Bulbulia (2005), ‘Are There Any Religions? An Evolutionary Exploration’, Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 17, pp. 71–100. Copyright © 2005 Brill Academic Publishers; James W. Dow (2006), ‘The Evolution of Religion: Three Anthropological Approaches’, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 18, pp. 67–91. Copyright © 2006 Brill Academic Publishers; Justin L. Barrett and Brian Malley (2007), ‘A Cognitive Typology of Religious Actions’, Journal of Cognition and Culture, 7, pp. 201–11. Copyright © 2007 Brill Academic Publishers; Pascal Boyer (1992), ‘Explaining Religious Ideas: Elements of a Cognitive Approach’, Numen, 39, pp. 27–57. Copyright © 1992 Brill Academic Publishers; Jesse M. Bering and Dominic D.P. Johnson (2005), “‘0 Lord … You Perceive my Thoughts from Afar”: Recursiveness and the Evolution of Supernatural Agency’, Journal of Cognition and Culture, 5, pp. 118-42. Copyright © 2005 Brill Academic Publishers.
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