Scientific Study of Religion Journal Club
What is it?
Each week we will read and discuss an article
that focuses on the scientific study of religion.
When? Every
Thursday, 11:15 - 12:15, during the 2009 Fall semester.
Where? Anthropology Colloquium Room, 404 Beach Hall
Who? Any
students or faculty who are interested.
Why? It is an excellent opportunity to keep up with the emerging literature on the topic.
Questions?
Contact Richard Sosis at richard.sosis@uconn.edu
Dates:
September 10: Gil Diesendruck & Lital Haber "God’s categories: The effect of religiosity on children’s teleological and essentialist beliefs about categories." Cognition 110 (2009) 100–114.
September 17: Jason Weeden, Adam Cohen, & Douglas Kenrick "Religious attendance as reproductive support." Evolution and Human Behavior 29 (2008) 327-334
September 24: Rudd Koopmans & Susanne Rebers, "Collective action in culturally similar and dissimilar groups: An experiment on parochialism, conditional cooperation, and their linkages." Evolution and Human Behavior 30 (2009) 201-211.
October 1: David Sloan WIlson, Daniel Tumminelli O'Brien, & Aurtura Sesma, "Human prosociality from an evolutionary perspective: Variations and correlations at a city-wide scale." Evolution and Human Behavior 30 (2009) 190–200
October 8: Berman, E. and D.D. Laitin. "Religion, terrorism and public goods: Testing the club model". Journal of Public Economics 92 (2008), 1942-1967. NOTE: Please read pages 1942-1949 and 1959-1961 for discussion.
October 15: Blume M (2009), "The Reproductive Benefits of Religious Affiliation". In Voland E, Schiefenhövel W (eds). The biological evolution of religious mind and behavior. Springer, New York
October 22: Inzlicht, M., McGregor, I., Hirsh, J., & K. Nash, (2009) Neural Markers of Religious Conviction Psychological Science 30(3), 385-392.
October 29: Justin Barrett, (2007) "Cognitive Science of Religion: What is it and why is it?" Religion Compass (1), 1-13
November 5: No Meeting
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