Titlebook: Evolutionary Processes in the Natural History of Religion; Body, Brain, Belief Hansjörg Hemminger Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) a

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Alessandro Capone,Assunta Pennaf worship appeared, then agricultural, socially stratified communities (Neolithic revolution) and urban societies. Archeological discoveries document various prehistoric funeral cultures from this period. The first evolutionary steps toward human religion, on the other hand, could already have occur

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137363107t important pre-adaptation on the way to religion was the increase of the neocortex, the mentalization of social behavior, and innovative social structures and skills leading to a specific hominin form of eusociality. A Theory of mind (ToM) developed and became part of the cognitive space. Human eus

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Brigitte Kaufmann,Christian Hülsebuschy of brain functions, and that cognitive modules evolved as adaptations to past selective pressures. Consequently, religion is regarded as a by-product of specific modules, e.g., hyper-agency detection (HAD) and detection of minimally counterintuitive concepts (MCI). "Broad" EP, however, takes into

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Antje Ducki,Florian Welter,Julia Günthers category. An analysis of religious fanaticism, however, suggests that it depends on religious modernity and features of post-axial religions. Compared to earlier religions, post-axial ones are characterized by the objectification of world views, the moralizing of the sacred and redemptive righteou

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52105-9 magical and superstitious elements. Aspects described as “magical” are performances which are believed to cause immanent effects, although their mode of operation cannot be analyzed outside the framework of religious convictions. The differentiation between beliefs of high standing and popular, tri

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What Do We Know? What Can Be Known?bout historic religions. The asymmetry between the two bodies of knowledge results in a prevalence of retrospective hypotheses based upon analogies with historic religions. Sometimes they consist of several mutually dependent assumptions. An example is the proposal that the Neanderthals used a speci