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Important sources for researching The Cognitive Sciences of Religion (CSR)

Ahn, T., (2019). Yearning for affection: Traumatic bonding between Korean ‘comfort women’ and Japanese soldiers during World War II, European Journal of Women’s Studies, Vol. 26(4) 360–374.

 

Ainsworth, M. D. S., (1985). Attachments across the life span. Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 61, 792-812.

 

Ainsworth, M. D. S., (1989). Attachments beyond infancy. American Psychologist, 44, 709-716.

 

Allport, G. W., (1950). The individual and his religion. New York, Macmillan.

 

Alper, M., (2006). The “GOD” Part of the Brain, Naperville, Illinois, Sourcebooks, Inc.

 

Ayala Flores, F., and Lewis, W. H., (1978). Drinking the South American hallucinogenic ayahuasca, Economic Botany, 32, 154-156.

 

Barrett, J. L., (2000). Exploring the natural foundations of religion, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol 4, No. 1, 29-34.

 

Barrett, F. S., Krimmel, S. R., Griffiths, R. R., Seminowicz, D. A., and Mathur, B. N., (2020). Psilocybin acutely alters the functional connectivity of the claustrum with brain networks that support perception, memory, and attention, NeuroImage, Volume 218, 116980,

 

Barret, J. L., (2004). Why Would Anyone Believe in God?, Plymouth, UK, Altamira Press.

 

Beaton, L. B., and Koenig, H. G., (1990). Religious cognitions and use of prayer in health and illness. Gerontologist, 30, 249-253.

 

Bering, J., (2011). The Belief Instinct, New York,  W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

 

Bowlby, J., (1959). Separation anxiety. International Journal of Psycho-Analysts, XLI, 1-25.

 

Bowlby, J., (1969).  Attachment and Loss, Volume 1, London, Pimlico.

 

Bowlby, J., (1982). Attachment and loss: Attachment (2nd ed.). New York, Basic Books.

 

Boyer, P., (2001). Religion Explained, New York, Basic Books, Perseus Books Group.

 

Bretherton, I., (1985). Attachment theory: Retrospect and prospect. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, American Psychological Association, 50(1-2), 3–35.

 

Bretherton, I., (1992). The Origins of Attachment Theory: John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth, Developmental Psychology, 28, 759-775.

 

Burkert, W., (1996). Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of biology in early religions. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press.

 

Collins, N. L., and Feeney, B. C., (2000). A Safe Haven: An Attachment Theory Perspective on Support Seeking and Caregiving in Intimate Relationships, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 78, No. 6, 1053-1073.

 

Crippen, T., and Machaleck, R., (1989). The evolutionary foundations of the religious life. International Review of Sociology, 3, 61-84.

 

Davies, P., (1992). The Mind of God, London, Penguin Books.

 

Dawkins, R., (2012). The Magic of Reality, London, Transworld Publishers.

 

Dawkins, R., (2016). The God Delusion, London, Transworld Publishers.

 

Dawkins, R., (2016). The Selfish Gene 40th Anniversary Edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

 

Dennett, D. C., (2006). Breaking the Spell, London, Penguin.

 

Fondevilla, S., and Martín-Loeches, M. (2013). Cognitive mechanisms for the evolution of religious thought, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1299, 84-90.

 

Frankl, V., [1946] (2006). Man’s Search for Meaning. An Introduction to Logotherapy, Beacon Press, Boston, MA.

 

Freud, S., (1907). Obsessive actions and religious practices. In J. Strachey (Ed. and Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 9, pp. 115–128). London: Hogarth.

 

Freud, S., (1913). Totem and taboo. In J. Strachey (Ed. and Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 13, pp. vii–162). London, Hogarth.

 

Freud, S., (1927). The future of an illusion. In J. Strachey (Ed. and Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 21, pp. 1–56). London: Hogarth.

 

Gage, M. N., and Baars, B. J., (2018). Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience: A Beginner’s Guide (2nd ed.). Oxford, United Kingdom, Elservier Inc.

 

Genkin, M., (2010). Simmel in the Laboratory: An Experimental Investigation into the Relationship Between Secrecy snd Cohesion. Unpublished MA Thesis, Cornell University.

 

Gibbs, H. W., and Achterberg-Lawlis. J., (1978). Spiritual values and death anxiety: Implications for counselling with terminal cancer patients. Journal of Counselling Psychology, 25, 563-569.

 

Guthrie, S., Agassi, J., Andriolo, K. R., Buchadahl, A., Earhart, H. B., Greenberg, M., Jarvie, I., Saler, B., Saliba, J., Sharpe, K. J., and Tissot, G., (1980). A Cognitive Theory of Religion [and Comments and Reply], Current Anthropology, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Apr. 1980), 181-203.

 

Heyman, R. E., Smith Slep, A. M., Beach, S. R. H., Wamboldt, M. Z., Kaslow, N. J., and Reiss, D., (2009). Relationship problems and the DSM: needed improvements and suggested solutions. World psychiatry: official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), 8(1), 7–14.

 

Hood, R. W., Jr., Spilka, B., Hunsberger, B., and Grouch, R., (1996). The psychology of religion: An empirical approach (2nd ed.). New York, Guilford Press.

 

Hume, D., [1779] (1993). Dialogues and Natural History of Religion, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

 

James, W., (1902). The Varieties of Religious Experience, Independently published.

 

Jenkins, R., and Pargament, K. I., (1988). Cognitive appraisals in cancer patients. Social Science and Medicine, 26, 625-633.

 

Jeeves, M., and Brown, W. S., (2009). Neuroscience, Psychology and Religion, West Conshocken, PA, Templeton Press.

 

Kaufman, G., (1981). The theological imagination: Constructing the concept of God. Philadelphia, Westminster.

 

Kay, T., Lehmann, L., and Keller, L., (2019). Kin selection and altruism. Current biology, CB, 29(11), R438–R442.

 

Kirkpatrick, L. A., and Shaver, P. R., (1990). Attachment Theory and Religion: Childhood Attachments, Religious Beliefs, and Conversion, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 29, No. 3, 315-334.

 

Kirkpatrick, L. A., (2005). Attachment, Evolution, and the Psychology of Religion, London, Guilford Press.

 

Lane, J. D., and Wegner, D. M., (1995). The Cognitive Consequences of Secrecy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69(2), 237–253.

 

Lindenthal, J. J., Myers, J. K., and Stern, M. S., (1970). Mental status and religious behaviour. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 9, 266-268.

 

Lipton, B. H., (2015). The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition, London, Hay House UK Ltd.

 

Martin, L. H., (2016). The Mind of Mithraists, Historical and Cognitive Studies in The Roman Cult of Mithras, London, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

 

Marx, K., [1843] (1970). Critique of Hegel’s ‘Philosophy of Right’, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

 

Mattlin, J. A., Wethington, E., and Kessler, R. C., (1990). Situational determinants of coping and coping effectiveness. Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, 31, 103-122.

 

Newberg, A., D’aquili, E., and Rause, V., (2001). Why God Won’t Go Away, New York, Random House Publishing Group.

 

Newberg, A., and Waldman, M. R., (2009). How God Changes Your Brain, New York, Random House Publishing Group.

 

Newberg, A., (2018). Neurotheology, How science can enlighten us about spirituality, New York, Columbia University Press.

 

O’Brien, M. E., (1982). Religious faith and adjustment to long-term hemodialysis, Journal of Religion and Health, 21, 68-80.

 

Okozi, I. F., (2010). Attachment to God: Its Impact on the Psychological Wellbeing of Persons with Religious Vocation, Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs). 302.

 

Pinker, S., (1997). How the mind works. New York, Norton.

 

Rivier, L., and Lindgren, J. E., (1972). “Ayahuasca,” the South American hallucinogenic drink: An ethnobotanical and chemical investigation, Economic Botany, 26(20), 101-129.

 

Stouffer, S. A., Lumsdaine, A. A., Lumsdaine, M. H., Williams, R. M., Jr., Smith, M. M., Janis, I. L., Star, S. A., and Cottrell, L. S., (1949). The American soldier: Combat and its aftermath (Vol. 2). Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press.

 

Tomanová ÄŒergeÅ¥ová, I., (2020). God as an Attachment Figure and Psychological Power of Bonding. Morrisville, MATURKANIÄŒ, Patrik (eds.). Spiritual and Social Experience in the Context of Modernism and Postmodernism. (Interdisciplinary Reading of the Phenomenon). Lulu Publishing Company.

 

Thomson, J. A., and Aukofer, C., (2011). Why we believe in god(s). A concise guide to the science of faith, Charlottesville, Virginia, Pitchstone Publishing.

 

Van Way, C III., (2016). War and Trauma: A History of Military Medicine, Missouri medicine, Vol. 113(4), 260-263.

 

Wenegrat, B., (1990). The sociobiology and psychology of religion. Lexington, MA, Lexington Books.

 

Whitehouse, H., (2002). Modes of Religiosity: Towards a Cognitive Explanation of the Sociopolitical Dynamics of Religion, Method & Theory in the study of Religion, 14, Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 293-315.

 

Whitehouse, H., and Lanman, J. A., (2014). The ties that bind us: Ritual, fusion, and identification. Current Anthropology, 55(6), 674–695.

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