The Evolution of Religions: A History of Related Traditions

Table of Contents
Preface: A Modern Evolutionary Approach to History of Religion Studies
Introductory Section: Applying Evolutionary Theory and Philosophy to Aspects of Human Culture
	1. Religions, Classification, and Phylogenetic Pattern
	2. Explaining Hypothetical Patterns with Evolutionary Process Theory
Main Section: The Historical Diversification (Evolution) of Religions
	3. Early Supernaturalism and the Development of Organized Religion
	4. Indigenous Eastern Organized Religion and Asian Cyclicism
	5. Afro-Euro-Mediterranean Organized Religion, Beginning with Old World Hard Polytheism
	6. Linear Monotheism
	7. The Early Diversification of Abrahamic Monotheism
	8. Traditional Christianity
	9. Reformation Christianity
	10. Biblical Demiurgism: A Subgroup of “Gnosticism”
	11. Islam
Summary Section: Four Historical Trends in the Evolution of Religions and Considerations for the Future of Humanity
	12. Organized Religions and the Evolution of Human Society
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Select Terms
Notes
Chapter Citations
References
Figure Credits
Subject Index