Mind and religion : psychological and cognitive foundations of religiosity. / Harvey Whitehouse.

A reductionistic model of distinct modes of religious transmission / Pascal Boyer
Modes theory : some theoretical considerations / Robert Hinde
Ritual form and ritual frequency : from ethnographic reports to experimental findings / E. Thomas Lawson
Divergent religion : a dual-process model of religious thought, behavior, and structure / Todd Tremlin
Rethinking naturalness : modes of religiosity and religion in the round / Matthew Day
In the empirical mode : evidence needed for the modes of religiosity theory / Justin Barrett
Memory and analogical thinking in high-arousal rituals / Rebekah A. Richert, Harvey Whitehouse, and Emma Stewart
Religious conversion and modes of religiosity / Ilkka Pyysiäinen
Charisma, tradition, and ritual : a cognitive approach to magical agency / Jesper Sørensen
Why religions develop free will problems / D. Jason Slone
The cognitive foundations of religiosity / Harvey Whitehouse

Recent cognitive approaches to the study of religion have yielded much understanding by focusing on common psychological processes that all humans share. One leading theory, Harvey Whitehouse's modes of religiosity theory, demonstrates how two distinct modes of organizing and transmitting religious traditions emerge from different ways of activating universal memory systems. In Mind and Religion, top scholars from biology to religious studies question, test, evaluate, and challenge Whitehouse's sweeping thesis. The result is an up-to-date snapshot of the cognitive science of religion field for classes in psychology, anthropology, or history of religion."--Jacket