Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

Bonner, John Tyler

Book of Common Prayer

Book of Mormon

bootstrapping

Border collies

born-again Christians

bowerbirds

Bowles, Samuel

Boyd, Robert

Boyer, Pascal

Boyer, Peter

bragging

brains

alcohol’s effect on

of domestic animals

getting information imprinted in

“god center” in

human versus chimpanzee

as language processors

memes and structures of

memory

minds and

parasites in

understanding itself

brainwashing

brand loyalty

brand names

Breakdown of Will (Ainslie)

breeding

bright

“Bright Stuff, The” (Dennett)

broccoli, genetically transmitted distaste for

Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevski)

Brown, Dan

Buddhism

Bulbulia, Joseph

burial of the dead

Burkert, Walter

Burns, Conrad

Bush, George H. W.

butterflies, eye spots on wings of

Â

cadavers, dissection of human

Calvary Chapel

cancer

Cannon, Walter B.

canon

card games, teaching

cargo cults

Carvey, Dana

catastrophes

averted, as anticlimax

ignoring

technologies for causing global

catechisms

cathedrals

Catherine the Great

Catholic Church. See Roman Catholic Church

Catholocism gene

cats

cauliflower, genetically transmitted distaste for

causation

Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca

celebrity trials

cell phone ringing

center of the Earth

cephalopods

ceremony. See ritual

ceroscopy

certainties, moral

chain letters

chance

charismatic leaders

charity

cherry-picking

chess

chiefdoms

childbirth

children

and information about sex

loss of innocence in

obedience to parents by

Santa Claus belief in

understanding parents’ religious avowals

what shall we tell them

See also infants

chimpanzees

groups of

human ancestors and

and language

as natural psychologists

second-order intentionality in

tools of

China

chocolate cake recipe

choosing a major in college

Christianity

age of

on apostasy

born-again

and cargo cults

devotion to an idea in

End Days movement

evangelical

faith as feature of

and Family (Fellowship Foundation)

fundamentalist

God becoming more abstract and

depersonalized in

moderates versus extremists in

as multinational

as path to peace

puritanical

reaction to blasphemy in

religious art of

sacrifices on behalf of religion in

selection of sources in

spreading the Word in

terrorism in

See also Roman Catholic Church

Christian Science

Christmas carols

chromosomes

chronic religion

chronometers

church and state, separation of

church construction

“churchianity,”

Churchill, Winston

church membership

cilantro, genetically transmitted distaste for

Cinderella

civil-rights movement

clairvoyance

clams

“cleaner” fish

Cloak, F. T.

cloning

clouds

coalitions

coals, walking on bed of

Cobb County (Georgia)

codes

codons

Coe, Douglas

coevolution

cohesiveness, group

coin flipping

Collapse (Diamond)

Columbia University

Comaneci, Nadia

comfort, religion as providing

commensalism

common cold

common knowledge

common wisdom

communism

competition

as condition of natural selection

folk religion’s preservation in face of

happy accidents amplified by

between ideas

in memory

between religious groups

computationalism

computers

computer viruses

concepts

conceptual revisions

condoms

confidence

conflict

religion as exploiting

religion as source of

Confucianism

conjuring

Consciousness Explained (Dennett)

consent

Constitution of the United States

control systems

controversies, scientific

convergent evolution

conversion

cooperation

copying

cross-species

in cultural transmission

genetic

high-fidelity

multiplexing for ensuring fidelity in

ritual for improving

See also replication

copyright

Corinthians

corporations

corpses

corruption

Cosmological Argument

cost-benefit calculations

costs, high entry and exit

counterintuitive anomalies

coyotes

creation ex nihilo

creationism

Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions (Burkert)

credal athleticism

creed revision

Cro-Magnon burial sites

Cronk, Lee

cross-species meme-copying

cruelty to animals

crusades

crying, infant

cuckoos

cui bono?

cults

cargo

death of

on end of the world

as high-tension

satanic

cultural evolution

as Darwinian

memes versus psychological constraints in

of moral thinking

of shamanism

social science questions recast in terms of

See also cultural transmission

cultural health

cultural replicators

See also memes

cultural software

Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology (Balkin)

cultural transmission

of Acheulean handaxes

of design

of divination

of folk religion

interplay between genetic transmission

and

of language

of money

parental training as

of religion

of ritual

of shamanism

stewardship for

variation in

Cupitt, Don

cures, miraculous

curiosity

cute, babies as

Â

dairy-herding

D’Aquili, Eugene

Darwin, Charles

Darwinian evolution. See evolution

Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society (Wilson)

Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (Dennett)

Davies, Paul

Da Vinci Code, The (Brown)

Dawkins, Richard

Dead Sea Scrolls

death

intentional stance and dealing with

life after

as natural

death penalty

Debray, Régis