Contemporary Theories of Religion : A Critical Companion (Hardcover)

Introduction  1. Cognitive Structures and Religio-Cultural Systems  2. From Neo-Tylorianism to the Cognitive Science of Religion  3. Religion at the Intersection of Need and Violence  4. Ritual as the Heart of Culture and of Religion  5. Religion as Rational Choice: The So-Called New Paradigm in the Sociology of Religion  6. Ritual as a System of Communication  7. Naturally Counterintuitive Evolutionary Byproducts  8. Phylogony of the Gods, or, how to naturalize religion  9. Boundary Maintenance: Religion as Organic-Cultural Flows  10. Roots in the Brain: The Origin and Explanation of Religion  11. The Atheistic Approach in the Cognitive Science of Religion  12. Religion as Crisis Intervention  Where to Go from Here? Prospects and Epilogues