Attachment, evolution, and the psychology of religion/
Lee A. Kirkpatrick.
- New York :: Guilford Press, c2005.
- xvi, 400 p. :
1. INTRODUCTION An Ambitious Agenda A New Direction The Plan of This Book 2. INTRODUCTION TO ATTACHMENT THEORY Backdrop The Attachment System Attachment in Adulthood Attachment and Evolutionary Psychology Summary and Conclusions 3. GOD AS AN ATTACHMENT FIGURE Religion as Relationship But Is It Really an Attachment Relationship? Seeking and Maintaining Proximity to God God as a Haven of Safety God as a Secure Base Responses to Separation and Loss Summary and Conclusions 4. MORE ON RELrCION AS AN ATTACHMENT PROCESS: SOME EXTENSIONS AND LIMITATIONS Religion and Love What Kind of Love?: Romantic Attachment versus Attachment to God God as a Parental Figure Individual Differences in Images of God Beyond God: Extensions and Limitations Other Forms of Attachment (or Not) in Religion Summary and Conclusions 5. INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN ATTACHMENT AND RELIGION: THE CORRESPONDENCE HYPOTHESIS Mental Models and the Correspondence Hypothesis "Socialization" as an Alternative Explanation Summary and Conclusions 6. GOD AS A SUBSTITUTE ATTACHMENT FIGURE: THE COMPENSATION HYPOTHESIS Individual Differences and Religious Conversion Contextual Factors in Religious Change Summary and Conclusions 7. ATTACHMENT IN CONTEXT: INTRODUCTION TO EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY Evolutionary Psychology as a Paradigm or Metatheory Adaptation and Natural Selection Domain-Specificity and the Mental-Organs Model Nature "versus" Nurture Stone Age Minds in Modem Environments Individual Differences in Evolutionary Context Some Illustrative Examples: Politics, Music, and Sports Summary and Conclusions 8. ATTACHMENT THEORY IN MODERN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE Childhood Attachment in Modem Evolutionary Perspective Attachment and Reproductive Strategies Love Revisited Implications for the Theory of Attachment and Religion Summary and Conclusions y 9. RELIGION: ADAPTATION OR EVOLUTIONARY BY-PRODUCT? Is There a Unique Religious Instinct? Problems with the Religion-as-lnstinct View Religion as an Evolutionary By-product, Not an Adaptation Summary and Conclusions 10. BEYOND'ATTACHMENT: RELIGION AND OTHER EVOLVED PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS Power, Status, and Intrasexual Competition Kinship Reciprocal Altruism and Social Exchange Coalitional Psychology Summary and Conclusions 11. THE COGNITIVE ORIGINS OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF Evolved Mechanisms for Thinking about the Natural World The Psychology of Complex Thinking: How the Mind Works The Cognitive Building Blocks of Religious Belief Why Religious Beliefs Succeed Beyond Religion: Other Forms of Thought and Belief Summary and Conclusions 12. BEYOND GENES: LEARNING, RATIONALITY, AND CULTURE Natural Selection, Genes, and Inclusive Fitness From Genes to Memes Science Revisited Summary and Conclusions 13. TOWARD AN EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION A Precis in (More or Less) Reverse An Evolutionary Psychology of Religion for the Future Summary and Conclusions