In recent decades, a new scientific approach to understand, explain, and predict many
features of religion has emerged. The cognitive science of religion (CSR) has amassed�…

Synthesizing diverse strands of theory and research, this compelling book explores the
psychology of religion and spirituality through an innovative attachment lens. Pehr Granqvist�…

Understanding Greek Religion is one of the first attempts to fully examine any religion from a
cognitivist perspective, applying methods and findings from the cognitive science of religion�…

Agency detection is a central concept in the cognitive science of religion (CSR).
Experimental studies, however, have so far failed to lend support to some of the most�…

How do we learn to be religious? To make sense of this process should we emphasise the
habitual reinforcement of bodily rituals? Or the active role of individuals in making decisions�…

We argue that event is a basic concept that humanists, social scientists, and cognitive
psychologists can use to build a consilient research platform for the study of experiences�…

The disease burden of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a definitive public health
challenge. The quality of life of children with ASD depends on how the cultural environment�…

Subjective religious and spiritual experiences (rs) are believed by many to be reliable
indicators of external agency. A set of related phenomena are used to support this view that�…

In evolutionary approaches to religion it is argued that belief in supernatural agents is
strongly related to a perceptual bias to over-detect the presence of agents in the�…

Many books aim to help beginners explore whether or not evolutionary science is
compatible with Christian faith. This one probes more deeply to ask: What do we learn from�…