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This is an exploration of the relationship between evolutionary psychology, naturalism, and theological reflections, published by ESSSAT, the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology. How natural is religion? Is it a phenomenon written in our genes or brains, naturally developing with the development of the human race? The book considers the findings of evolutionary psychology from scientific, philosophical and theological perspectives and critically examines the relation between empirical, epistemological and theological notions. Chapters in the book deal with the naturalness of religion and religious experiences as based on genetics, biology and social psychology. Other authors examine the relationship between religion, science and theology with regard to the naturalness of religion from a more general perspective. The last part of the book includes views from a Muslim scholar and a historian.
Contents
Part I: Religion - from a natural point of view; 1. The Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of Theology; 2. Are Religious Experiences Natural? Biological Capacities for Religion; 3. Gene Theology and Folk Biology; 4. Context Sensitivity and the Folk Psychology of Souls: Why Bering et. al. got the Findings they Did; Part II: Religion - naturally? Philosophical reflections; 5. Religion - Naturally. Religion, Theology, and Science; 6. Do We Need to Naturalize Religion?; 7. What's Religion For? A dilemma of the scientific investigation of religion; 8. Why religious experience is considered personal and dubitable - and what if it were not; 9. The Religion of Science; Part III: The nature of religion - theological perspectives; 10. Perspectives on Theomorphism in Islam; 11. What Could Theologians Possibly Learn From the Cognitive Study of Religion?; 12. Natural and Revealed Religion in Early Modern British Thought.
