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