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Congregationalism
Conrad, Geoffrey
Constantine, Roman emperor
Constantinople
Constitution, U.S.
contact principle
contraception
Cook, Michael
cooperation
Coptic church
coronation rites
Cortés, Hernán
Cousins’ Wars, The
(Phillips)
Crone, Patricia
crusades
cults, suicide path of
cultural differences
culture
evolution and
Cybele
Cyril, Egyptian patriarch
Damascus
dance
of Andaman Islanders
healing
kaiko
social cohesion and
suppression of
trance
transformation of religion and
“Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture”
(Garfinkel)
Dancing in the Streets
(Ehrenreich)
Darwin, Charles
music as viewed by
survival of the fittest and
Darwin’s Cathedral
(D. S. Wilson)
David, King
Dawkins, Richard
death
Natufians and
from warfare
Declaration of Independence, U.S.
Demarest, Arthur
dervish orders
Descent of Man, The
(Darwin)
Deuteronomy
Dever, William
de Waal, Frans
de Wette, Wilhelm
Dewi Danu
Di
Didache (“The Teaching of the Twelve
Apostles”)
dimorphic features
Diocletian, Roman emperor
Dionysus
Diplomacy
(Kissinger)
disgust
divination
divine retribution, fear of
DNA
Dodds, E. R.
Douglas, Mary
dreams, dreamworld
of Australian Aborigines
dress
drugs
drums, drumming
Durkheim, Émile
Evans-Pritchard’s views on
Easter
ecology of religion
fertility control and
natural resources and
population size and
reproduction and
warfare and
economics, economy
see also
trade
Economist
ecstatic religion
egalitarianism
Egypt, ancient
exodus from
Egypt, modern
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Eisenhower, Dwight
Ekstein, David
El/elohim
Elementary Forms of Religious Life, The
(Durkheim)
Eleusinian mysteries
emotion
bonding and
empathy
End of Faith, The
(Harris)
England
Engwura
ceremony
enthousiasmos
Ephesus, Council of (431)
Episcopal church
ethnicity
Etruscans
eucharist (communion)
European Union
Eusebius
evangelical churches
Evans-Pritchard, E. E.
evolution, biological
human choice and
morality and
rejection of theory of
evolution of religion
as adaptation vs. by-product
common or universal features and
emergence of religious behavior and
genetics and
group selection and
from male dominance to egalitarianism
membership costs and
supernatural realm and
faces
Falun Gong movement
Feldman, Noah
Finke, Roger
Finkelstein, Israel
Fitch, Tecumseh
Flannery, Kent V.
flutes
food
distribution of
eucharist and
Jewish dietary laws and
sacrifice and
Foot, Philippa
Forel, Auguste
Fowler, Robert
Fox, George
FOXP2 gene
France
Frazer, James G.
freeloading
Fukuyama, Francis
fundamentalism, Christian
fundamentalism, Islamic
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Fundamentals, The
Gage, Phineas
Garfinkel, Yosef
//
Gauwa
//
gauwasi
Genesis
genetics, genes
evolution of religion and
kin selection and
language development and
morality and
music and
preservation of ancestral religion and
Germany, Germans
biblical analysis by
Gibbon, Edward
Gilgamesh, Epic of
Gillen, F. J.
God
belief in
chosen people of
evolution of religion and
messenger of
obituary of
trust and
Yahweh
God-fearers
Golden Bough, The
(Frazer)
Goodenough, Oliver
Good Friday experiment
Great Britain
Greeks, ancient
Greenberg, Toby
Gregory I “the Great,” Pope group selection music and Guyana, cult deaths in
Haidt, Jonathan
Hamilton, William
Harris, Sam
Hart, Mickey
Hauser, Marc
Hawting, G. R.
healing
Heaven’s Gate cult
Hebrew
Hendrix, Jimi
Heraclius, Byzantine emperor
hierarchy
primate
religious;
see also
priests
higher criticism
Hijaz
Hinduism
Hitchens, Christopher
Hobbes, Thomas
Holland
Holy Roman Empire
homosexuality
honor
Horus
Hoshea, king of Israel
Hubert, Henri
Huldah
Hume, David
hunter gatherers
dance of
egalitarianism of
infant killing and
music of
punishment and
trance and
warfare of
see
also
ancestral religion; Andaman Islanders; Australian Aborigines; !Kung San
hunting
Huntington, Samuel
Huntington’s disease
Iannaccone, Laurence
Ibn Ishaq
incest
India
Industrial Revolution
infanticide
Inglehart, Ronald
initiation rites
of Andaman
of Australian Aborigines
music and
Innocent I, Pope
intention principle
interest, prohibitions on
Iran
Iraq
Irons, Williams
Isis
Islam
alternative hypothesis about
ecology of religion and
future of
origins of
Sunni-Shia split in
tree of religion and
warfare and
the West vs.
Israel, modern
Israelites, Israel, ancient
Jacob’s dream
James, Saint
James, William
Japan
Jefferson, Thomas
Jeffs, Warren
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jenkins, Philip
Jero Gde
Jerusalem
Dome of the Rock in
Jesus Christ
birth of
nature of
resurrection of
as sacrifice
Jesus movement
Johann of Nassau
Johnson, Dominic
Johnson, Paul
John the Baptist
Jones, Jim
Joseph
Joshua
Josiah, King
Judaea
Judah
Judaism, Jews
ecology of religion and
evolution of religion and
festivals in
future of
Haredim
Hellenized
origins of
Orthodox
persecution of
social cohesion of
tree of religion and
warfare and
Julius Caesar
Julius II, Pope
Kagan, Jerome
kaiko
Kant, Immanuel
kayasa
festival
Kaytalugi
Keeley, Lawrence H.
Keightley, David
Kelly, Raymond
Kemal, Mustafa
Kennedy, Hugh
Kennedy, John F.
Khomeini, Ayatollah
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
kin selection
kinship
Kipling, Rudyard
Kiryas Joel
Kissinger, Henry
Klein, Richard
Kohlberg, Lawrence
Koren, Judith
Kroeber, Alfred
Kugel, James L.
Kula exchange system
! Kung San
meat distribution of
religious practices of
songs of
labor
lactose tolerance
Lakhmid dynasty
Lambert, Frank
language
dialects of
emergence of religious behavior and
evolution of
genetic base of
music and
nation and
religion compared with
tree of descent of
Lansing, Stephen
Lateran Council (1139)
Laud, William
law, legal system
Leach, Edmund
LeBlanc, Steven
legal secularism
Letter Concerning Toleration,
A (Locke)
Lewis, Bernard
Lewis, I. M.
Lewontin, Richard
literacy
Locke, John
Luke, Saint
Luther, Martin
Luxenberg, Christoph
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
McKenna, George
McNeill, William
Madoff, Bernard
magic
Malinowski, Bronislaw
Mallitus, Abbot
Malthus, Thomas
Ma’mun, Caliph Al-
Manasseh, king of Judah
marching
Marcus, Joyce
Maring
Mark, Saint
marriage
Marshall, Lorna
Marxists
Mary
Matthew, Saint
Maurice of Nassau, Prince
Mauss, Marcel
Maya
Mecca
Meeks, Wayne
Melanesia
Mesopotamia
Methodists
Mexica
Michal
Middle Ages
Milan, Edict of (313)
Miller, Geoffrey
Milvian bridge, battle of (312)
mind, theory of
Mithraism, Mithras
monasteries, monks
monkeys
Montanists
Montanus
Monte Alban
moral dumbfounding
moral intuition
trolley problems and
morality
of Australian Aborigines
building blocks of
cultural differences and
definition of
Durkheim’s views on
genetic basis of
group selection and
human
origins of
philosophical and psychological views of
without religion
sexual
trust and
understanding the evolutionary nature of
in the U.S.
moral reasoning
Mormonism, Mormans
ecology of religion and
Moses
Mu’awiyah, Caliph
Muhammad
murder
music
Darwin’s views on
future of religion and
initiation rites and
of !Kung people
language compared with
origins of
warfare and
mystery cults
sacred meals in
myths
Nana
al-Nasrani
Nathagura
(fire ceremony)
nation
fault lines between civilizations and
secularism and sacred texts and
National Presbyterian Church
Natufians
natural resources
natural selection
dancing and
evolution of religion and
groups and
morality and
music and
Neanderthals
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylonia
Necho II, Pharaoh
Needham, Rodney
Negritos
Neolithic age
Nero, Roman emperor
Nevo, Yehuda
New England
New Guinea
Nicaea, Council of
Nicene Creed
Nichols, David
Noah
Nongqawuse
nonsectarianism
Norris, Pippa
Northern Ireland
Nuer
n/um
songs and dance
Oaxaca Valley
Obsolescence of Oracles, The
(Plutarch)
Ohlig, Karl-Heinz
On the Origin of Species
(Darwin)
Order of the Solar Temple
Orthodoxchurch
Ottoman empire
Ovid
Pahnke, Walter
Palestine
Papua New Guinea
Parliament, English

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