Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

formulas, believing versus understanding

Foucault, Michel

foxes

franchises

Frank, Robert

Franklin, Benjamin

Franklin, C. L.

freedom

Freedom Evolves (Dennett)

freedom of religion

free-floating rationale

for children’s obedience to parents

for culturally transmitted designs

for curiosity

for divination

for liking for sweets

for money

represented rationales replacing

for romantic love

for witnessing

free love

free riders

freethinkers

free will

frequency-dependent fitness

Freud, Sigmund

fruit

Frum, John

Fry, Christopher

full-access agents

functionalism

fundamentalism

future, anticipating the

Future of an Illusion, The (Freud)

Â

Gaia hypothesis

gambling

Gauchet, Marcel

“gay”

Geertz, Clifford

Geisteswissenschaften

General Motors

genes

boundary conditions for

for Catholicism

cultural transmission contrasted with

cultural transmission mimicking transmission by

gene centrism versus external continuities

“god gene”

identity of

interplay between cultural transmission and transmission by

memes compared with

refinement of

for religion

in sexual reproduction

transcending imperatives of

Genesis 2:21

genetic engineering

geofacts

Georgia

germs, knowledge of

Gibson, Mel

Gintis, Herbert

Global League of Religions

global warming

Gnostic Gospels

God (gods)

accepting inferior status to invisible

arguments for existence of

as authorless

belief in

believing in belief in

concept transformed

as Dealmaker

in definition of religion

in divination

exchange relations with

as Father

Freud on philosophers on

fundamental incomprehensibility of

“god center” in the brain

“god gene”

godless religions

humor about

as intentional object

as Lawgiver

love of

making sure good things happen

in natural religion

omniscience of

personal

as Policeman

as role model

sacrifices to

spectrum of

supernatural versus divine essence

See also anthropomorphism

Gödel’s Theorem

“God-fearing”

God Gene, The (Hamer)

Golden Rule

“Goldilocks”

Goldwyn, Samuel

good deeds

good intentions

Good Tricks

Gortner, Marjoe

“go to fixation”

Gould, Stephen Jay

Grafton, Anthony

grandchildren

Grandin, Temple

Grassley, Charles

gravity

Greatest Story Ever Told, The (film)

Great Santa Claus Catastrophe of 1985

greedy reductionisms

Greek language, linguistic shifts in

Ground of All Being

groups

ant colony versus corporate models of

concerns generated by living in

See also team spirit

group selection

guilds

gulls

Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond)

gurus

Â

hadith literature

Hagia Sofia

Hail Mary pass

hajj

Halloween

Hamas

Hamer, Dean

Hamlet (Shakespeare)

handaxes, Acheulean

Handel, George Frideric

happiness

Hare Krishna

Harris, Sam

Harry Potter stories

haruspicy

Harvard Medical School

healing

miraculous cures

by shamans

health, religion as improving

healthy-minded people

Heath, Chip

heaven

heights, fear of

hell

hepatoscopy

herbs, medicinal

heresy

hermeneutics

Higher Power

high-tension religions

Hinduism

historical arguments for existence of God

HIV

Hobbes, Thomas

Holbach, Baron d’

Holmes, Sherlock

holy soil

homosexuality

Hubbard, L. Ron

humanities

Human Relations Area File

human rights

Hume, David

humility

Humphrey, Nicholas

hunter-gatherers

hurt feelings

“hygiene” programs

hyperactive agent detection devices (HADDs)

hypnosis

gene for hypnotizability

impromptu

in ritual healing

by shamans

hypocrisy

Â

ideals

ideas

competition between

as created in minds

devotion to

lineages of

marketplace of

ideology

ignorance

as bliss

as default condition of human race

enforced

ignorance about

imposing

as our worst enemy

right to remain in

ijtihad

illusions, comforting

imagination

imams

Immaculate Reception

immortality of the soul

immunity

imperialism, scientific

imperialist universalism

imprinting

incommensurability

incomprehensibility

indeterminacy of radical translation

indoctrination

Indo-European languages

ineffability

inerrant interpretation of sacred texts

infants

crying

imprinting in

interest in speech

mortality rates

infectious diseases

infertile women, prayer helping

infidels

influenza

infomercials

information

absence of

enough to be worth copying

memes as packets of

misinformation

outside

overload

parental transmission of

psychological effects diminished by

rising tide of

about sex

strategic

informed consent

In Gods We Trust (Atran)

Inhofe, James

initiation rites

inquisitiveness

insects

nuptial gifts of

See also ants

instincts

institutions, preserving

instrumental value

intellectual property rights

Intelligent Design

intentional objects

intentional stance

and double agents

as practical necessity

and social interaction

spiritual and mythological agents

intentional systems. See intentional stance

interdisciplinary collaboration

Internet

interpretation

intrinsic value

Inuit

invisible bananas

invulnerability to arrows

Iraq

Ireland

“Irish Washerwoman” (jig)

Isfahan, mosques of

“Is God in our Genes?” (Time magazine)

Islam

age of

on alcohol

on apostasy

delegated authority in

disgust with modern culture

eating disorders among women

education for young Muslims

and fanatics

God becoming more abstract and depersonalized in

ijtihad

Islamism