Attraction of Religion

D. Jason Slone is Associate Professor of Psychology and Humanities at the School of Arts and Sciences, Tiffin University, USA.James A. Van Slyke is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Fresno Pacific University, USA.

The Attraction of Religion daringly succeeds in presenting a scientific framework that will serve as a secure starting point and a useful reference for future, in-depth inquiries.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction. Connecting Religion, Sex, and Evolution, Jason Slone (Professor of Cognition and Culture, School of Arts & Sciences, Tiffin University, USA) & James Van Slyke (Assistant Professor of Psychology, School of Humanities, Religion & Social Sciences, Fresno Pacific University, USA)Chapter 1. Why Don’t Abstinence Programs Work? (and other Puzzles), James Van Slyke (Assistant Professor of Psychology, School of Humanities, Religion & Social Sciences, Fresno Pacific University, USA)Chapter 2. Religion and Parental Cooperation: An Empirical Test of Slone’s Sexual Signaling Model, Joseph Bulbulia (Associate Professor, School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), John Shaver (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory for Experimental Research of Religion, Masaryk University, Czech Republic), Lara Greaves (NZAVS Lab Manager, School of Psychology, The University of Auckland, New Zealand), Richard Sosis (Professor of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, USA) & Chris Sibley (Associate Professor, School of Psychology, University of Auckland, New Zealand) Chapter 3. How Is’t With Thy Religion, Pray? Selection of Religion among Individuals and Groups, Michael Blume (Lecturer in Religious Studies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)Chapter 4. Losing My Religion: A Life-History Analysis of the Decline of Religious Attendance from Childhood, Jason Weeden (independent academic)Chapter 5. Costly Signaling Theory, Sexual Selection, and the Influence of Ancestors on Religious Behavior, Craig T. Palmer (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Missouri, USA) & Ryan O. Begley (doctoral student in anthropology, University of Missouri, USA)Chapter 6. When Religion Makes It Worse: Religiously Motivated Violence as a Sexual Selection Weapon, Yael Sela (doctoral student in psychology, Oakland University, USA), Todd K. Shackelford (Chair of Psychology, Oakland University, USA), & James R. Liddle (doctoral student in psychology, Florida Atlantic University, USA)Chapter 7. The Dividends of Discounting Pain: Self-Inflicted Pain as a Reputational Commodity, Matthew Martinez (Researcher, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada – Las Vegas, USA) & Pierre Lienard (Assistant Professor of Anthroplogy, University of Nevada – Las Vegas, USA)Chapter 8. Religion and Marketing: The Attractiveness of Religion as a Moral Brand, Panagiotis Mitkidis (Researcher, Interacting Minds Center, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, Denmark) & Gabriel Levy (Associate Professor, Norwegian Univeristy of Science and Technology, Norway)Chapter 9. Fathering, Rituals, and Mating: Exploring Paternal Stability and Sexual Strategies in Early Religion, David Bell (Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, Georgia State University, USA)Chapter 10. The Evolutionary Psychology of Theology, Andrew Mahoney (independent academic and Guest Lecturer, Victoria University, Australia)