What Explains the Emergence of Moralizing Religions?
An ambitious article: "Increased Affluence Explains the Emergence of Ascetic Wisdoms and Moralizing Religions", by Nicolas Baumard, Alexandre Hyafil, Ian Morris, and Pascal Boyer in Current Biology, 25, 1 (2015).
Summary
Background: Between roughly 500 BCE and 300 BCE, three distinct regions, the ...
A Cognitive Science of Theology?
A new, interesting, and original book by Helen De Cruz and Johan De Smedt: A Natural History of Natural Theology: The Cognitive Science of Theology and Philosophy of Religion. MIT Press 2014.
Overview:
"Questions about the existence and attributes of God form the subject matter of natural theolo...