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