A) E. E. Evans-Pritchard B) Michael Shermer C) Pascal Boyer D) Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
A) Theology B) Cognitive anthropology C) Sociology D) Journalism
A) As a cultural invention passed down through ancient scriptures B) As a direct result of environmental stress factors C) As a phenomenon of the mind's cognitive inference systems D) As an evolutionary error caused by poor eyesight
A) Pareidolia B) Auditory hallucination C) Logical deduction D) Mathematical calculation
A) The study of social interactions between diverse cultures B) The ability to recognize human faces in a crowd C) The intuitive process of assuming the presence of conscious agents D) The deliberate search for supernatural entities in scriptures
A) Religious concepts are parasitic upon other mental capacities B) Religious concepts are independent of human biological evolution C) Religious concepts create entirely new mental capacities D) Religious concepts rely on a specific 'religion-only' brain module
A) Essentialist B) Atheistic C) Fundamentalist D) Spandrel
A) The collapse of the house as evidence of moral failings B) The building materials as a proxy for religious devotion C) Witchcraft as an explanation for the specific timing of an event D) Termites as an explanation for the existence of spirits
A) The collection of religious rituals from various cultures B) The statistical probability of belief in a specific deity C) The power of a group to influence individual religious thought D) The successful activation of a variety of mental systems
A) As a milestone on the road to a new behavioral understanding B) As a book that fails to address the cognitive basis of religion C) As a work that relies heavily on 100 years of traditional studies D) As a classic example of theological apologetics
A) That his writing style was too academic and complex B) That he failed to define the biological roots of religion C) That he did not include enough ethnographic examples D) That his talk of 'religion' is suspiciously generic
A) He thinks Boyer ignored the ethnographic data entirely B) He suggests Boyer fails to provide a single satisfactory explanation C) He believes Boyer successfully identified the single cause of religion D) He claims Boyer provided a perfect model for all religious practices
A) Its focus solely on the history of religious theology B) Its ability to prove the existence of a nonmaterial realm C) The integration of cognitive science research into a realistic model D) Its dismissal of the importance of secularized environments
A) The history of Panamanian Cuna shamanism B) The validity of extraterrestrial sightings in New Mexico C) The attribution of conscious agency to non-human beings D) The socio-economic consequences of religious fanaticism
A) It is too short and lacks depth B) The writing is frequently impenetrable C) It focuses too much on personal anecdotes D) It is overly reliant on theological jargon
A) Religion is a necessary survival mechanism for the body B) Religion is a social invention designed to control populations C) Religion is a result of advanced logical reasoning D) Religion is a by-product of having a particular kind of brain
A) They are used as the primary framework for his own theory B) They are expanded upon in great detail C) They are quickly dismissed D) They are validated through scientific testing
A) A special religion-processing brain module B) Moral intuitions C) Intuitive psychology D) Social mind adaptations
A) Basic Books B) Vintage C) Robert Laffont D) William Heinemann Ltd
A) Finnish B) Spanish C) Greek D) Polish
A) Tiina Arppe B) Mariya Desyatova C) Claude-Christine Farny D) Donatella Sutera Sardo
A) 2005 B) 2001 C) 2010 D) 2007
A) Dimitris Xygalatas B) Ulrich Enderwitz, Monika Noll, and Rolf Schubert C) Leo Gillet D) Tiina Arppe
A) Und Mensch schuf Gott B) Godsdienst verklaard C) Religion Explained D) I człowiek stworzył bogów
A) Dimitris Xygalatas B) Ulrich Enderwitz C) Krystyna Szeżyńska-Maćkowiak D) Mariya Desyatova
A) Vintage B) Vanias C) WSOY D) Odoya
A) Warsaw B) Thessaloniki C) Paris D) Moscow
A) And Man Created the Gods B) Nature of Religious Thinking C) And Man Created God D) Religion Explained
A) Mariya Desyatova B) Tiina Arppe C) Leo Gillet D) Donatella Sutera Sardo |