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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 | |