Current approaches in the cognitive science of religion

Pascal Boyer - why do gods and spirits matter at all? supernatural gadgets and social mind adaptations Ilkka Pyysiainen - religion and the counter-intuitive Justin L. Barrett - dumb gods, petitionary prayer, and the cognitive science of religion Stewart Guthrie - animal animism: evolutionary roots of religious cognition Pertti Saariluoma - does classification explicate the contents of concepts? E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley - cognitive constraints on religious ritual form - a theory of participants' competence with religious systems Harvey Whitehouse - implicit and explicit knowledge in the domain of ritual Jeppe Sinding Jensen - the complex worlds of religion - connecting cultural and cognitive analysis Veikko Anttonen - identifying the generative mechanisms of religion - the issue of origin revisited Jesper Sorensen - "the morphology and function of magic" revisited Matti Kamppinen - explaining religion - cognitive and evolutionary mechanisms.