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Is there such a thing as religion? | p. 9 |
The Kant-Darwin Axis | p. 11 |
Religions without doctrines | p. 13 |
No "religion" in most cultures | p. 14 |
Who invented religion? | p. 16 |
Religions as brands | p. 20 |
Does the study of religion need "religion"? | p. 22 |
An uncertain and unnecessary concept | p. 23 |
What is natural in religions? | p. 25 |
Natural religion as a theory | p. 25 |
What is the phenomenon? | p. 26 |
The cognitive picture - supernatural concepts | p. 27 |
Why are supernatural concepts culturally stable? | p. 30 |
The cognitive picture - non-physical agency | p. 32 |
Natural religion is not (just) for the primitive Other | p. 35 |
Probabilistic, experience-distant model | p. 36 |
What Make religious notions culturally viable | p. 37 |
Do religions make people better? | p. 41 |
Humans are "prosocial" | p. 43 |
Apparently, morality could not possibly evolve | p. 44 |
Models of commitment | p. 47 |
Could "religion" be a form of prosocial signaling? | p. 50 |
So why are superhuman agents also moral enforcers? | p. 54 |
Epilogue | p. 55 |
Is there a religious experience? | p. 57 |
Why bother with experience? | p. 57 |
Who invented "religious experience"? | p. 60 |
Monks and magnets | p. 61 |
Rituals: a real (and most common) form of religious experience | p. 63 |
Ritualized behavior and precaution systems | p. 66 |
What about collective "rituals"? | p. 67 |
Religion and experience redux | p. 69 |
Are religions against reason and freedom? | p. 73 |
A recapitulation of natural religious elements | p. 73 |
Understanding religious cognition without "belief" | p. 76 |
Religion is not the sleep of reason | p. 77 |
The troubled consciousness of modern religions | p. 78 |
Two escape routes - fundamentalism and "spirituality" | p. 80 |
No need for "science and religion" or different "magisterial" | p. 85 |
Two varieties of Enlightenment | p. 89 |
Misleading policies: the specificity of "religion" | p. 91 |
Political psychology and secularization | p. 93 |
Epilogue - fracture of an illusion | p. 95 |
Afterword | p. 99 |
Bibliography | p. 105 |
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