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