R.N. McCauley (2023). Journal of Cognition and Culture 23 (1-2), 1-27.
Read MoreArticles: Cognitive Foundations of Religions
Recent Trends in the Cognitive Science of Religion (PDF)→
/Neuroscience, Religious Experience, and the Confluence of Cognitive and Evolutionary Research
R.N. McCauley (2020). Zygon 55(1), 97-124.
Read MoreDomesticating Scrupulosity (book chapter) [PDF]→
/R.N. McCauley and G. Graham (2020). The Natural Method: Ethics, Mind, and Self. T. Polger, E. Nahmias, and W. Zhao (eds.). Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 45-77.
Read MoreTheory of Mind, Religiosity, and Autistic Spectrum Disorder (PDF)→
/A Review of Empirical Evidence Bearing on Three Hypotheses
R.N. McCauley and G. Graham (2019). Journal of Cognition and Culture 19(5), 411-431.
Read MoreCognitive and Evolutionary Approaches to Religion (book chapter) [PDF]→
/R.N. McCauley (2016). Blackwell Companion to Naturalism. K. Clark (ed.). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 462-480.
Read MoreLa Cognición Natural, la Ciencia Profesional y la Religión Popular (book chapter) (PDF)→
/Robert N. McCauley (2015). Mesa Redonda 8, 22-46.
Read MorePhilosophical Naturalism and the Cognitive Science of Religion→
/R.N. McCauley (2015). Religion Bulletin (portal of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion), July 13, 2015.
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 MoreWhy Science Is Exceptional and Religion Is Not→
/A Response to Commentators on Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not
Robert N. McCauley (2013). Religion, Brain & Behavior. 3 (2), 165-182., 165-182.
Read MoreFunctions, Mechanisms, and Contexts→
/Comments on “Cognitive Resource Depletion in Religious Interactions”
Robert N. McCauley (2013). Religion, Brain & Behavior 3, 68-71.
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