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The Evolution of Religion: A Re-Examination attempts to show that while religion has evolved like any other cultural entity, the process is not as simple as earlier evolutionists of religion have made it out to be.

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Page iii
THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION
A Re-Examination
by
BERNARD J. VERKAMP
Scranton: University of Scranton Press
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1995 by University of Scranton Press
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-In-Publication Data
Vekamp, Bernard J. (Bernard Joseph), 1938
The evolution of religion: A re-examination / by Bernard J.
Verlkamp
p. cm
Bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-940866-48-X (hard). - ISBN 0-940866-49-8 (pbk.)
1. Religion. 2. Evolution-Religious aspects. I. Title.
BL430.V47 1995
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Page v
To my friend and colleague -
Phillip E. Pierpont
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Preface
xi
Introduction
xiii
1. The Origin of Religion
1
2. The Soul's Prehistory
19
3. The Process of Religious Evolution
49
4. The Course of Religious Evolution: Prolegomena
71
5. The Course of Religious Evolution
95
6. The Adaptive Value of Religion
127
7. Conclusion
153
Appendix: "The Religious Given"
159
Abbreviations
195
Bibliography
197
Index
215

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Acknowledgments
Quotations from Donald T. Campbell, "Variation and Selective Retention in Socio-Cultural Evolution," in Herbert R. Barringer, George I. Blanksten, and Raymond W. Mack, Social Change in Developing Areas (Cambridge: Shenkman, 1965). Quoted with permission from Shenkman Publishing Company, Inc.
Quotations from Robert Bellah, Beyond Belief: Essays on Religion in a Post-Industrial World. Copyright (c) 1991 The Regents of the University of California. Quoted by permission of the University of California Press.
Quotations from Descartes, The Philosophical Works, translated by Elizabeth S. Haldane and G. R. T. Ross. Copyright 1983 The Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.
Quotations from D. Bruce Dickson, The Dawn of Belief. Copyright 1990 by The Arizona Board of Regents. Quoted by permission of The University of Arizona Press.
Quotations from Alister Hardy, The Biology of God (London: Jonathan Cape, 1975), by permission of the Estate of Alister Hardy and Random House UK Limited.
Quotations from The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 9, Part I (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1959). Reprinted with permission from Princeton University Press.
Quotations from George Lindbeck, "The A Priori in St. Thomas' Theory of Knowledge," in The Heritage of Christian Thought, ed. by R. E. Cushman and E. Grislis (New York: Harper and Row, 1965).
Quotations from Rudolf Otto, The Idea of the Holy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1958). Quoted by permission of Oxford University Press.
Quotations from Rudolf Otto, The Philosophy of Religion (London: Williams and Norgate Ltd., 1931).
Quotations from Rudolf Otto, Religious Essays (London: Oxford University Press, 1931). Quoted by permission of Oxford University Press.
Quotations from Roy A. Rappaport, "The Sacred in Human Evolution." Reproduced, with permission, from the Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Volume 2, copyright 1971, by Annual Reviews Inc.
Quotations from V. Reynolds and R. E. S. Tanner, The Biology of Religion. Copyright 1983. Quoted with permission from the publishers, Longman House.
Quotations from Robert J. Richards, Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of the Mind and Behavior
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