Articles and Books

Articles

• Alcorta, C. & Sosis, R. (2005) Ritual, Emotion, and Sacred Symbols: The Evolution of Religion as an Adaptive Complex. Human Nature 16(4) 323-359.

• Atran, S., & Norenzayan, A. (2004) Religion’s evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27: 713-770.

• Bering, J.M., McLeod, K. & Shackelford, T.K. (2005) Reasoning about Dead Agents Reveals Possible Adaptive Trends. Human Nature 16(4): 360-381.

• Blume, M. (2009) “The Reproductive Benefits of Religious Affiliation“, in: Voland, E. & Schiefenhövel, W. (eds) “The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behaviour“, Springer Frontier Collection 2009.

• Boyer, P. & Bergstrom, B. (2008) Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion. Annual Reviw of Anthropology 37: 111–130.

• Bulbulia, J. (2004) The cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion. Biology and Philosophy 19: 655–686.

• Graham, J., & Haidt, J. (in press) Beyond beliefs: Religion binds individuals into moral communities. Personality and Social Psychology Review.

• Henrich, J. (2009) The evolution of costly displays, cooperation, and religion: Credibility enhancing displays and their implications for cultural evolution. Evolution and Human Behaviour 30: 244-260

• Murray, M.J., & Moore, L. (2009) Costly Signaling and the Origin of Religion. Journal of Cognition and Culture 9: 25-245.

• Norenzayan, A., & Shariff, A. (2008) The Origin and Evolution of Religious Prosociality. Science 322: 58.

• Norenzayan, A., Atran, S., Faulkner, J. & Schaller, M. (2006) Memory and Mystery: The cultural selection of minimally counterintuitive narratives. Cognitive Science 30:531-553.

• Pyysiäinen, I. & Hauser, M. (2010) The origins of religion: evolved adaptation or by-product? Trends in Cognitive Sciences 14(3): 104-109.

• Ruffle, B.J. & Sosis, R. (2006) Cooperation and the in-group-out-group bias: A field test on Israeli kibbutz members and city residents. Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organisation 60: 147-163.

• Sanderson, S.K. (2008) Adaptation, evolution, and religion. Religion 38:141-156.

• Sosis, R. (2009) The Adaptationist-Byproduct Debate on the Evolution of Religion: Five Misunderstandings of the Adaptationist Program. Journal of Cognition and Culture 9: 315-332.

• Sosis, R. (2003) Why Aren’t We All Hutterites? Costly signaling theory and Religious Behavior. Human Nature 14 (2):91-127.

• Wilson, D. S. (2005) Testing major evolutionary hypotheses about religion with a random sample. Human Nature 16(4): 382-209.

Books

• Atran, S. (2004) In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Boyer, P. (2001) Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought. New York: Basic Books.

• Bulbulia, J., Sosis, R., Genet, C., Genet, R., Harris, E. & Wyman, K. (ed.) (2008) The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques. Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.

• Dennett, D. C. (2006) Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. New York: Viking.

• Feierman, J.R. (2009) The Biology of Religious Behavior: The Evolutionary Origins of Faith and Religion. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
• Frey, U. (ed). (2010) The Nature of God – Evolution and Religion. Tectum.

• Raman, V.V. (2009) Truth and Tension in Science and Religion. New Hampshire: Beech River Books.

• Rossano, M.J. (2009) Supernatural Selection: How Religion Evolved. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Schaller, M., Norenzayan, A., Heine, S.J., Yamagishi, T., & Kameda, T. (eds) (2009) Evolution, Culture and the Human Mind. New York: Psychology Press.

• Schloss, J. & Murray, M. (eds) (2009) The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the Origin of Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Slone, J. D. (ed) (2009) Religion and Cognition: A Reader. UK: Equinox Publishing.

• Voland, E. & Schiefenhövel, W. (ed.) (2009) The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior.

• Whitehouse, H. (2004) Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta-Mira Press.

• Wilson, D. S. (2002) Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.