Religious Speciation: How Religions Evolve

Chapter 1. Nothing makes sense except in the light of evolution... (State of research and critique of current evolutionary accounts in the Study of Religions).- Chapter 2. What is Evolution? (An analysis of biological evolution.).- Chapter 3. What does evolve? Humankind or Religion Itself? (That means: Is religion a by-product of our brain and is religion adaptive? Or are we in search for a theory of how religion itself evolves? These are very different questions!).- Chapter 4. The question of the evolving unit. (What is the equivalent of the "species").- Chapter 5. How do religions evolve? (The search for the driving forces behind religious evolution: variability and selection).- Chapter 6. The adaptation of a religion - what does it mean?.- Chapter 7. The "Natural environment" and the evolving religion (What is the environment to which an evolving religion has to adapt? - see our discussion in: Wunn & Grojnowski: "Ancestors, Territoriality, and Gods", Springer 2016).- Chapter 8. Inheritance among religions (What does the term "heredity" mean - as far as religions are concerned?).- Chapter 9. Religio-speciation.- Chapter 10. Hybridization (What happens when two religions influence each other and become one?).- Chapter 11. Ontogenetics and Epigenetics: Religions and the short-term adaptation to a changing environment.- Chapter 12. Phylogenetics or: a Tree of Life for religions.- Chapter 13. Systematics: How are the historical and recent religions related to each other?.- Chapter 14. The evolution of Judeo-Christian religion (an example. Also possible: The evolution of the religions of the Indian Subcontinent).