The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Religion

James R. Liddle is a technical writer with 11 years of professional writing experience. He received a Master of Arts degree in Experimental Psychology, specializing in evolutionary psychology, from Florida Atlantic University in 2014. His primary areas of interest and expertise are the evolution of religious beliefs/behaviors and teaching evolutionary psychology. Todd K. Shackelford is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan., where he is Co-Director of the Evolutionary Psychology Lab. He received his Ph.D. in evolutionary psychology in 1997 from the University of Texas at Austin. Much of Dr. Shackelford's research addresses sexual conflict between men and women, with a special focus on men's physical, emotional, and sexual violence against their intimate partners.

1. An Introduction to Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion
James R. Liddle and Todd K. Shackelford
2. Mickey, Yahweh, and Zeus: Why Cultural Learning Is Essential for the
Evolutionary Study of Religion
Will M. Gervais
3. The Diversity of Religious Systems across History: An Evolutionary
Cognitive Approach
Pascal Boyer and Nicolas Baumard
4. Religion as Anthropomorphism: A Cognitive Theory
Stewart Elliott Guthrie
5. Evolutionary Developmental Psychology of Children>'s Religious
Beliefs
Tyler S. Greenway and Justin L. Barrett
6. Belief, Ritual, and the Evolution of Religion
Matt J. Rossano, Benjamin Vandewalle
7. Adolescence and Religion: An Evolutionary Perspective
Candace S. Alcorta
8. Religion and Morality: The Evolution of the Cognitive Nexus
John Teehan
9. The Kin Selection of Religion
Bernard Crespi
10. The Coevolution of Religious Belief and Intuitive Cognitive Style via
Individual-Level Selection
Michael N. Stagnaro and David G. Rand
11. The Early Origin of Religion: Its Role as a Survival Kit
Kenneth Kardong
12. The Elephant in the Pews: Reproductive Strategy and Religiosity
Jason Weeden, Robert Kurzban, and Douglas T. Kenrick
13. Religion: An Evolutionary Evoked Disease-Avoidance Strategy
John A. Terrizzi Jr. and Natalie J. Shook
14. Religion as a Means of Perceived Security: Testing the Secure Society
Theory
James R. Liddle
15. Charismatic Signaling: How Religion Stabilizes Cooperation and
Entrenches Inequality
John H. Shaver, Gloria Fraser, and Joseph Bulbulia
16. The Evolution of Religion and Morality
Azim Shariff and Brett Mercier
17. The Roots of Intergroup Conflict and the Co-optation of the Religious
System: An Evolutionary Perspective on Religious Terrorism
Jordan Kiper and Richard Sosis
18. Selected to Kill in His Name: Evolutionary Perspectives on Religiously
Motivated Violence
Yael Sela and Nicole Barbaro
19. Supernatural Beliefs and the Evolution of Cooperation
Pierrick Bourrat and Hugo Viciana
20. A Socio-Evolutionary Approach to Religious Change
Ryan T. Cragun and J. E. Sumerau
21. The Evolution and Exploitation of Transcendence
Gregory Gorelik
22. Challenges to an Evolutionary Perspective on Religion
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Index