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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
Parsons, Talcott
Passover (Pesach)
Paul, Saint
peacemaking and reconciliation
Nathagura and
witchcraft and
peacocks, peahens
Peires, J. B.
Peninsula War
Pentateuch
Pentecostalists
Pentz, Peter
Peoples Temple Agricultural Project
percussive instruments
Peru
Peter, Saint
pews
Phillips, Kevin
Philo
Piaget, Jean
pigs
Pinker, Steven
plagues
Pleistocene
Plutarch
politics
Polo, Marco
polygyny
Pomeroy, Sarah
Popp, Volker
population:
growth of
religious adjustment of size of
potlatch ceremonies
prayer
predetermination
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Presbyterians
Price, George
priests
transformation of religion and
primates
see also apes ; chimpanzees; monkeys
Primitive Culture (Tylor)
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, The (Weber)
Protestantism
Protestant Reformation
proto-religion
Puin, Gerd
Puritanism
Putnam, Robert
Pythia
Quakers
Qur’an Tafsir
racial superiority
Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred
Rappaport, Roy
rational choice theory
reciprocity
religion:
borders and
darker side of
definitions of
differences vs. commonalities of
etymology of word
evolution of, see evolution of religion
future of
nature of
new, starting of
origin of
pathologies of
social and personal nature of
universal elements of
religiosity, studies of
Renan, Ernest
reproduction
fertility control and
religious adjustment of population size and
revelation
Reynolds, Vernon
ritual
of American Civil Religion
belief vs.
and evolution of religion
language and
warfare and
see also dance; initiation rites; music
Roman empire
Christianity in, see Christianity, in Roman
empire competing sects in
ecology of religion and
falling birthrate in
Jews in
Rosh Ha-Shanah
Rouget, Gilbert
Ryan, Leo
sacred texts
see also Bible; Qur’an
sacred vs. profane
sacrifice
altruism and
animal
of Aztecs
child
food and
Sanders, E. P.
San José Mogote
Saracens
Sargon II, king of Assyria
Sarhili, Xhosa king
Sassanids
Saudi Arabia
Saul, King
Schachter, Steven
Schwartz, Glenn
science
Scotland
self-interest
selfishness
separation of church and state
settled societies
ancestral religion suppressed in
transformation of religion in,
see transformation of religion
sex, sexual intercourse
sexual morality
sexual selection
Shahrvaraz
Shakers
shamans
Shang dynasty
Shield, Renee Rose
Silberman, Neil Asher
Skinner, B. F.
Smith, Adam
Smith, Joseph
social capital
social cohesion
of Christians
dance and
of Jews
military drill and
music and
in the U.S.
warfare and
social rules, ability to learn
Sociobiology (Wilson)
Sol (Sol Invictus)
Solomon, King
Sosis, Richard
soul
South Africa
Soviet Union
Spain
speaking in tongues
Spencer, Baldwin
spirit-child theory of conception
Stanner, W.E.H.
Stark, Rodney
Stewart, Lyman
Sukkot
supernatural realm
access to
evolution of religion and
!Kung people and
omniscience of
punishment and, see divine retribution
religion without
transformation of religion and
see also God; specific gods
survival advantage
music and
reputation and
survival of the fittest
Sweden
symbols, sacred
Syria
Syriac
taboos
Taliban
Tanner, Ralph
Temple of the Crater Lake
Tertullian
Theodosius, Roman emperor
Theophilus, Egyptian patriarch
Theories of Primitive Religion (Evans -Pritchard)
Tilcajete
Titus
Tonkinson, Robert
Torah
totemism
trade
trance
dance
drugs and
supernatural world and
transformation of religion
and church struggle with ecstatic religion
interpretation of supernatural and
in Oaxaca Valley
in Old World
Treatise on Human Nature (Hume)
tree of religion
and alternative hypothesis about Islam
borders and
origins of Islam in
origins of Judaism in
rise of Christianity in
and shaping of Christianity
Trehub, Sandra
Trinity
Trivers, Robert
Trobriand Islands
trolley problems
trust
affinity fraud and
Trust (Fukuyama)
Tsembaga
Turkey
Tylor, Edward
ulema
Umayyad dynasty
United States
civil religion in
Puritan founding of
religious marketplace in
social capital in
Universal People
Upper Paleolithic period
Urabunna tribe
Urban II, Pope
usury
’Uthmann, Caliph
Varieties of Religious Experience, The (James)
Vespasian, Roman emperor
Vico, Giambattista
virgin birth
Visotsky, Burton L.
Wahhab, Ibn Abd al-
Wansbrough, John
Waqidi, Al-
warfare
causes of
ecology of religion and
evolution and
group selection and
of !Kung people
morality and
shaping religion for
training for
Yanomamo and
Warramunga people
Washington, George
weapons
Weber, Max
Wellhausen, Julius
Wellington, Duke of
Westphalia, Peace of (1648)
Whelan, Estelle
Whitehouse, Harvey
Williams, George
Wilson, Barrie
Wilson, David Sloan
Wilson, Edward O.
Witchcraft Among the Azande (Evans-Pritchard)
witch doctors
Xhosa
Yanomamo
Yarmuk, battle of (636)
Zeno
Zulus
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