Toward an alternative evolutionary theory of religion: Looking past computational evolutionary psychology to a wider field of possibilities

Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 583-621

  Barrett, Nathaniel F ^a  

^a Institute for the Biocultural Study of Religion   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION; HISTORY; HUMANISM; KNOWLEDGE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY; RELIGION; REVIEW; SCIENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANISM; KNOWLEDGE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SCIENCE;

EID: 77957774229     PISSN: 00027189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfq019     Document Type: Review

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