Is God a Delusion

By E. Reitan. 2008

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy

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Weird people, yes, but also weird experiments (2010, unknown): “An alternative hypothesis proposes that cooperation, trust, and exchange in large-scale societies result directly from the misapplication of evolved kin- and reciprocitybased heuristics for interacting in small-scale societies to individuals in larger social spheres (Burnham & Johnson 2005; Dawkins ”
The science of religious beliefs (2008, background): “the popular media (for example, Bloom, 2005; Dawkins, 2006; Dennett, 2006), is how the scientific explanation of reli-”
Science and God: An automatic opposition between ultimate explanations (2009, background): “Others, meanwhile, are more skeptical and argue that the two ideologies are inherently opposed, and that belief in one necessarily undermines belief in the other (Dawkins, 2006; Zukav, 2001).”
Beyond Beliefs: Religions Bind Individuals Into Moral Communities (2010, unknown): “Thinkers such as Richard Dawkins (2006) attempt to convert readers by dismantling the theological arguments and factual claims of religion: “If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down” (p. 5).”
How Gullible are We? A Review of the Evidence from Psychology and Social Science (2017, unknown): “…& McCann, 2006), in sociology textbooks (see Schweingruber & Wohlstein, 2005), in books by psychologists (Gilbert, 2006; Kahneman, 2011), philosophers (Brennan, 2012; Stanley, 2015), economists (Akerlof & Shiller, 2015; Chang, 2014), and other scholars (e.g., Dawkins, 2009; Herman & Chomsky, 2008).”
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (2006, background): “Two of the most prominent of this breed of atheist philosopher, Michael Martin and Kai Nielsen, have been completely overlooked by Dennett and Dawkins (2006).”
Critical insights into contemporary Islamic accounting (2009, background): “Acknowledging that Islam (as other religions) has often been linked with repression rather than emancipation (see Dawkins, 2006; Grayling, 2006; Hichens, 2007), this paper argues that this is not due primarily to religion’s repressive nature, but more to political forces mobilizing religion for its…”
In Godlessness We Distrust: Using Social Psychology to Solve the Puzzle of Anti-atheist Prejudice (2013, background): “2 With the obvious caveats that atheists are not religious and may not even be meaningfully considered a group 3 An additional condition, which unfortunately did not make the final cut of Study 4, found that reading popular atheist rhetoric (Dawkins, 2006) did not lead people to perceive atheists as”
Beliefs about God, the afterlife and morality support the role of supernatural policing in human cooperation (2011, background): “Whilst some argue that religion is simply a cultural parasite (Blackmore, 1999; Dawkins, 1976, 2006; Dennett, 2006) or evolutionary by-product of other adaptive processes (Atran, 2002; Barrett, 2000; Boyer, 2001; Guthrie, 1993; Pyysiäinen & Hauser, 2010), others see it as providing fitness…”
Beyond WEIRD: Towards a broad-based behavioral science (2010, unknown): “An alternative hypothesis proposes that cooperation, trust, and exchange in large-scale societies result directly from the misapplication of evolved kin- and reciprocitybased heuristics for interacting in small-scale societies to individuals in larger social spheres (Burnham & Johnson 2005; Dawkins ”