Revising Cognitive and Evolutionary Science of Religion: Religion as an Adaptation

Introduction.- Chapter1. Cognitive approach to the study of religion: basic concepts and theories.- Chapter2. Adaptationist account and pragmatic usefulness of religion.- Chapter3. Content biases versus context biases and the critique of intuitiveness and naturalness of religion.- Chapter4. Religion and biological evolution: what is right and what is wrong in Darwinian approach to the study of religion.- Chapter5. Religion and cultural evolution. Does supernatural punishment matter for evolution of altruism and cooperation?.- Chapter6. The challenge of atheism and non-belief for cognitive and evolutionary approach.- Chapter7. Why adaptationist account is better than cognitive one but both of them do not provide sufficient explanatory frameworks to explain religion.- Conclusion.