Mental culture : classical social theory and the cognitive science of religion / edited by Dimitris Xygalatas and William W. McCorkle Jr.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-254) and index.

Introduction : social minds, mental cultures : weaving together cognition and culture in the study of religion / William W. McCorkle Jr and Dimitris Xygalatas -- Explanatory pluralism and the cognitive science of religion : why scholars in religious studies should stop worrying about reductionism / Robert McCauley -- Early cognitive theorists of religion : Robin Horton and his predecessors / Stewart Guthrie -- The opium or the aphrodisiac of the people? : Darwinizing Marx on religion / Jason Slone -- Immortality, creation and regulation : updating Durkheim's theory of the sacred / Harvey Whitehouse -- Non-ordinary powers : charisma, special affordances and the study of religion / Ann Taves -- Malinowski's magic and Skinner's superstition : reconciling explanations of magical practices / Konrad Talmont-Kaminski -- Towards an evolutionary cognitive science of mental cultures : lessons from Freud / Joseph Bulbulia -- Piaget on moral judgement : towards a reconciliation with nativist and sociocultural approaches / Gordon Ingram -- Building on William James : the role of learning in religious experience / Tanya M. Luhrmann -- Explaining religious concepts : L�evi-Strauss the brilliant and problematic ancestor / Pascal Boyer -- The meaningful brain : Clifford Geertz and the cognitive science of culture / Armin W. Geertz -- Cognitive science and religious thought : the case of psychological interiority in the Analects / Edward Slingerland -- Conclusion : moving towards a new science of religion; or, have we already arrived? / Luther H. Martin and Ilkka Pyysi�ainen.