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Preface | |
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Opening Pandora's Box | |
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Breaking Which Spell? | |
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What's going on? | |
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A working definition of religion | |
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To break or not to break | |
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Peering into the abyss | |
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Religion as a natural phenomenon | |
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Some Questions About Science | |
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Can science study religion? | |
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Should science study religion? | |
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Might music be bad for you? | |
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Would neglect be more benign? | |
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Why Good Things Happen | |
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Bringing out the best | |
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Cui bono? | |
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Asking what pays for religion | |
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A Martian's list of theories | |
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The Evolution of Religion | |
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The Roots of Religion | |
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The births of religions | |
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The raw materials of religion | |
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How Nature deals with the problem of other minds | |
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Religion, the Early Days | |
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Too many agents: competition for rehearsal space | |
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Gods as interested parties | |
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Getting the gods to speak to us | |
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Shamans as hypnotists | |
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Memory-engineering devices in oral cultures | |
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The Evolution of Stewardship | |
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The music of religion | |
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Folk religion as practical know-how | |
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Creeping reflection and the birth of secrecy in religion | |
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The domestication of religions | |
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The Invention of Team Spirit | |
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A path paved with good intentions | |
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The ant colony and the corporation | |
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The growth market in religion | |
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A God you can talk to | |
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Belief in Belief | |
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You better believe it | |
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God as intentional object | |
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The division of doxastic labor | |
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The lowest common denominator? | |
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Beliefs designed to be professed | |
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Lessons from Lebanon: the strange cases of the Druze and Kim Philby | |
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Does God exist? | |
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Religion Today | |
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Toward a Buyer's Guide to Religions | |
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For the love of God | |
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The academic smoke screen | |
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Why does it matter what you believe? | |
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What can your religion do for you? | |
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Morality and Religion | |
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Does religion make us moral? | |
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Is religion what gives meaning to your life? | |
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What can we say about sacred values? | |
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Bless my soul: spirituality and selfishness | |
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Now What Do We Do? | |
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Just a theory | |
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Some avenues to explore: how can we home in on religious conviction? | |
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What shall we tell the children? | |
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Toxic memes | |
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Patience and politics | |
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Appendixes | |
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The New Replicators | |
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Some More Questions About Science | |
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The Bellboy and the Lady Named Tuck | |
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Kim Philby as a Real Case of Indeterminacy of Radical Interpretation | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |