Mental Culture: Classical Social Theory and the Cognitive Science of Religion, edited by Dimitris Xygalatas, William McCorkle. Routledge, 2014. 268pp., pb., $29.95, ISBN-13: 9781844657421; hb., $99.95, ISBN-13: 9781844656646.
Issued Date: 1 Dec 2014
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Wiebe, Donald. 2008. “The Scientific Study of Religion and Its Cultured Despisers.” In Introducing Religion: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Z. Smith, edited by Willi Braun and Russell T. McCutcheon, 467–479. London-Oakville: Equinox Publishing.
Blancke, Stefaan, Hans Henrik Hjermitslev, Johan Braeckman and Peter C. Kjærgaard. 2013. “Creationism in Europe: Facts, Gaps, and Prospects.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 81(4): 996–1028. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lft034
Brockman, John. 1995. The Third Culture. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Bulbulia, Joseph and Edward Slingerland. 2012. “Religious Studies as a Life Science.” Numen 59(5): 564–613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341240
Cartmill, Matt. 2011. “Turtles All the Way Down: the Atlas of Creation.” Reports of the National Center for Science Education 31(2): 1.1–1.10 [http://reports.ncse.com/index.php/rncse/article/view/22].
Darwin, Charles Robert. 1859. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. London: John Murray.
Darwin, Charles Robert. 1871. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/12293-000
Ferraris, Maurizio. 2014. Manifesto of New Realism. Albany: State University of New York Press (forthcoming).
Freud, Sigmund. 1878. “Über Spinalganglien und Rückenmark des Petromyzon.” Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften [Wien], Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 78, III. Abtheilung: 81–167.
Gottschall, Jonathan. 2013. The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human. Boston, MA: Mariner Books.
Gould, Stephen J. 2001. “Freud’s Evolutionary Fantasy.” In I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History, 147–158. New York: Harmony Books.
Gould, Stephen J. 2003. Ontogeny and Phylogeny. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Gould, Stephen J. and Richard Lewontin. 1979. “The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 205(1161): 581–598. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1979.0086
Guessoum, Nidhal. 2010. “Religious Literalism and Science-Related Issues in Contemporary Islam.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 45(4): 817–840. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01135.x
Guthrie, Stewart E. 1980. “A Cognitive Theory of Religion.” Current Anthropology 21(2): 181–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/202429
Martin, Luther H. 2008. “Do Rituals Do? And How Do They Do It? Cognition and the Study of Ritual.” In Introducing Religion: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Z. Smith, edited by Willi Braun and Russell T. McCutcheon, 311–325. London-Oakville: Equinox Publishing.
Martin, Luther H. 2012. “The Future of The Past: The History of Religions and Cognitive Historiography.” Religio: revue pro religionistiku 20(2): 155–171.
Martin, Luther H. and Donald Wiebe. 2012. “Religious Studies as a Scientific Discipline: The Persistence of a Delusion.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 80(3): 587–597. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfs030
McCauley, Robert N. 2011. Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Numbers, Ronald L. 2006. The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design. Expanded Edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Numbers, Ronald L. 2009. “Myth 24: That Creationism Is a Uniquely American Phenomenon.” In Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion, edited by R. L. Numbers, 215–223. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo, ed. 1979. Théories du langage, théories de l’apprentissage. Le débat entre Jean Piaget et Noam Chomsky, organisé et recueilli par M. Piattelli Palmarini. Paris: Éditions du Seuil.
Pievani, Telmo. 2007. In difesa di Darwin. Piccolo bestiario dell’antievoluzionismo all’italiana. Milano: Bompiani.
Pinker, Steven. 2002. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. New York: Viking.
Slingerlard, Edward and Mark Collard, eds. 2012. Creating Consilience: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Snow, Charles P. 1963. The Two Cultures and a Second Look: An Expanded Version of the Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sokal, Alan. 2010. Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Sulloway, Frank J. 1992. Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond the Psychoanalytic Legend. With a New Preface. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Turing, Alan E. 1950. “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” Mind, New Series 59(236): 433–460. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mind/LIX.236.433
Wiebe, Donald. 2008. “The Scientific Study of Religion and Its Cultured Despisers.” In Introducing Religion: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Z. Smith, edited by Willi Braun and Russell T. McCutcheon, 467–479. London-Oakville: Equinox Publishing.
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