Abstract
The underlying argument of this chapter is that in the search for the nature of the human self, of personhood, theology and the sciences may find a surprising overlapping, shared research trajectory. The evolution of religion and religious behaviour, it is argued, can never be disentangled from the evolution of embodied human personhood. The chapter explores contemporary accounts of the evolution of empathy and attachment, the evolution of morality, and the evolution of the religious disposition, arguing that each of these uniquely human traits has played a defining role in the evolution of human communication and human interpersonal attachment, and, along with the evolution of complex symbolic behaviour, combine to give us important insights into the evolution of religion and religious behaviour. The cognitive science of religion, it is suggested, must pay greater attention to the embodiedness of human beings in its account of the evolution of religion.
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