Write about the evolutionary theories of religion.
Evolutionary theories of religion are oft en perceived as posing a challenge to religious belief. In this chapter we examine this challenge and argue that the evolutionary science of religion does not undermine the veracity of, or warrant for, religious belief, and that this emerging fi eld aff ords a picture of belief that is more complex—and truly more remarkable—than what is typically presumed. Evolutionary accounts of religion generally refer to two related areas of research: cognitive and behavioral. On one side, cognitive scientists have championed the view that religion is the byproduct of psychological constituents, each of which evolved for purposes other than religion (Atran 2002; Boyer 2001). Specifi cally, religious thinking emerges when agency detection is evoked and the boundaries between the ontological domains of folk biology, folk psychology, and naïve physics are minimally violated. In
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