Intelligent Design and Religion as a Natural Phenomenon: Volume V

Contents: Introduction
 Part I Adaptation: The cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion, Joseph Bulbulia
 A scientific definition of religion, James W. Dow
 Are there any religions? An evolutionary exploration, Joseph Bulbulia
 Why religion is nothing special but is central, Maurice Bloch. Part II Naturalization of Religion: The evolution of religion: 3 anthropological approaches, James W. Dow
 Religion generalized and naturalized, Loyal Rue
 Testing major evolutionary hypotheses about religion with a random sample, David Sloan Wilson
 Exploring resources of naturalism: religiopoiesis, Ursula Goodenough
 Myths as instructions from ancestors: the example of Oedipus, Lyle B Steadman and Craig T. Palmer. Part III Cognitive Science and Religion: A cognitive typology of religious actions, Justin L. Barrett and Brian Malley
 Explaining religious ideas: elements of a cognitive approach, Pascal Boyer
 Are children 'intuitive theists'? Reasoning about purpose and design in nature, Deborah Kelemen
 Whence collective rituals? A cultural selection model of ritualized behavior, Pierre Lienard and Pascal Boyer
 God, genes, and cognizing agents, Gregory R. Peterson
 'O Lord...you perceive my thoughts from afar': recursiveness and the evolution of supernatural agency, Jesse M. Bering and Dominic D.P. Johnson. Part IV Sociocultural Accounts: God is watching you: priming God concepts increases prosocial behavior in an anonymous economic game, Azim F. Shariff and Ara Norenzayan
 The capacity for religious experience is an evolutionary adaptation to warfare, Allen D. MacNeill
 Ritual, emotion, and sacred symbols, Candace S. Alcorta and Richard Sosis. Part V Intelligent Design: Intelligent design: the original version, Francisco J. Ayala
 Intelligent design and probability reasoning, Elliott Sober
 The intelligent-design movement: science or ideology? Gregory R. Peterson
 The advantages of theft over toil: the design inference and arguing from ignorance, John S. Wilkins and Wesley R. Elsberry. Part VI Outcomes and Implications: Evolution and the meaning of life, William Grey
 The possibility of meaning in human evolution, Barbara Forrest
 Is the spell really broken? Bio-psychological explanations of religion and theistic belief, Justin L. Barrett
 How firm a foundation? A response to Justin L Barrett's 'Is the spell really broken?', Howard J. Van Till
 Name index.