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Index
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1. Introduction: social minds, mental cultures – weaving together cognition and culture in the study of religion
2. Explanatory pluralism and the cognitive science of religion: why scholars in religious studies should stop worrying about reductionism
3. Early cognitive theorists of religion: Robin Horton and his predecessors
4. The opium or the aphrodisiac of the people? Darwinizing Marx on religion
5. Immortality, creation and regulation: updating Durkheim’s theory of the sacred
6. Non-ordinary powers: charisma, special affordances and the study of religion
7. Malinowski’s magic and Skinner’s superstition: reconciling explanations of magical practices
8. Towards an evolutionary cognitive science of mental cultures: lessons from Freud
9. Piaget on moral judgement: towards a reconciliation with nativist and sociocultural approaches
10. Building on William James: the role of learning in religious experience
11. Explaining religious concepts: Lévi-Strauss the brilliant and problematic ancestor
12. The meaningful brain: Clifford Geertz and the cognitive science of culture
13. Cognitive science and religious thought: the case of psychological interiority in the Analects
14. Conclusion: moving towards a new science of religion; or, have we already arrived?
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