Abstract

Abstract This chapter aims to (a) provide a brief overview of the three primary approaches to the evolutionary study of religion (evolutionary psychology, human behavioral ecology, and dual-inheritance theory), (b) examine how the evolutionary and cognitive sciences of religion differ, and (c) explore areas of potential integration between these two scientific fields of inquiry. The chapter concludes that although the evolutionary and cognitive sciences of religion could continue as quasi-independent fields, they would both benefit from theoretical and methodological integration. The systemic approach, it is suggested, offers the most promising way forward.

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