R.N. McCauley (2016). Blackwell Companion to Naturalism. K. Clark (ed.). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 462-480.
Read MoreArticles: Cognitive Foundations of Religion
La Cognición Natural, la Ciencia Profesional y la Religión Popular (book chapter) (PDF)→
/Robert N. McCauley (2015). Mesa Redonda 8, 22-46.
Read MoreMaturationally Natural Cognition Impedes Professional Science and Facilitates Popular Religion (book chapter) (PDF)→
/Robert N. McCauley (in press). Reason and Belief in Societies of Knowledge. C. Salazar and J. Bestard (eds.). Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Read MorePutting Religious Ritual in its Place (book chapter) (PDF)→
/On Some Ways Humans’ Cognitive Predilections Influence the Locations and Shapes of Religious Rituals
Robert N. McCauley (2014). Locating the Sacred: Theoretical Approaches to the Emplacement of Religion. C. Moser and C. Weiss (eds.). Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 143-163.
Read MoreExplanatory Pluralism and the Cognitive Science of Religion (book chapter) [PDF]→
/Or Why Scholars in Religious Studies Should Stop Worrying about Reductionism
R.N. McCauley (2013). Mental Culture: Classical Social Theory and the Cognitive Science of Religion. D. Xygalatas and W. W. McCorkle, Jr. (eds.). London: Acumen, pp. 11-32.
Read MoreThe Importance of Being “Ernest” (book chapter) (PDF)→
/Robert N. McCauley (2012). Creating Consilience: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities. E. Slingerland and M. Collard (eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 266-281.
Read MoreHow Science and Religion Are More Like Theology and Commonsense Explanations Than They Are Like Each Other (book chapter) [PDF]→
/A Cognitive Account
Robert N. McCauley (2010). Chasing Down Religion: In the Sights of History and Cognitive Science. P. Pachis and D. Wiebe (eds.). Thessaloniki: Barbounakis Publications, pp. 242-265.
Read MoreCognition, Religious Ritual, and Archaeology (book chapter) [PDF]→
/Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson (2007). The Archaeology of Ritual. E. Kyriakidis (ed.). Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Publications, 209-254.
Read MorePhilosophical Naturalism and the Cognitive Approach to Ritual (book chapter) [PDF]→
/Robert N. McCauley (2004). Thinking Through Ritual. K. Schilbrack (ed.). London: Routledge, 148-171.
Read MoreIs Religion a Rube Goldberg Device? (book chapter) [PDF]→
/Or Oh, What a Difference a Theory Makes!
Robert N. McCauley (2003). Religion as a Human Capacity: A Festschrift in Honor of E. Thomas Lawson. B. Wilson and T. Light (eds.). Leiden: Brill, 45-64
Read MoreThe Cognitive Representation of Religious Ritual Form: A Theory of Participants’ Competence With Religious Ritual Systems (book chapter) [PDF]→
/E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley (2002). Current Approaches in the Cognitive Science of Religion. I. Pyysiainen and V. Anttonen (eds). London: Continuum, 153-176.
Read MoreRitual, Memory and Emotion: Comparing Two Cognitive Hypotheses (book chapter)→
/Robert N. McCauley (2001). Religion in Mind: Cognitive Perspectives on Religious Belief, Ritual, and Experience. J. Andresen (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 115-140.
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