The attraction of religion : a new evolutionary psychology of religion /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2015.
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| Series: | Scientific studies of religion (Bloomsbury (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Connecting religion, sex, and evolution / Jason Slone and James A. Van Slyke
- Why don't abstinence education programs work? (And other puzzles): exploring causal variables in sexual selectionist theories of religion / James A. Van Slyke
- Religion and parental cooperation: an empirical text of Slone's sexual signaling model / Joseph Bulbulia, John H. Shaver, Lara M. Greaves, Richard Sosis, and Chris G. Sibley
- How is't with thy religion, pray? Selection of religiosity among individuals and groups / Michael Blume
- Losing my religion: an analysis of the decline in religious attendance from childhood to adulthood / Jason Weeden
- Costly signaling theory, sexual selection, and the influence of ancestors on religious behavior / Craig T. Palmer and Ryan O. Begley
- When religion makes it worse: religiously motivated violence as a sexual selection weapon / Yael Sela, Todd K. Shackelford, and James R. Liddle
- The dividends of discounting pain: self-inflicted pain as a reputational commodity / Matthew Martinez and Pierre Lienard
- False advertising: the attractiveness of religion as a moral brand / Panagiotis Mitkidis and Gabriel Levy
- Fathering, rituals, and mating: exploring paternal stability and sexual strategies in early religious practices / David Bell
- The evolutionary psychology of theology / Andrew Mahoney.