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Contents

Introduction: Science, Religion and Forms of Life
Carles Salazar

PART I: COGNITION

Chapter 1. Maturationally Natural Cognition Impedes Professional Science and Facilitates Popular Religion
Robert N. McCauley

Chapter 2. Scientific vs. Religious ‘Knowledge’ in Evolutionary Perspective
Michael Blume

Chapter 3. Magic and Ritual in an Age of Science
Jesper Sørensen

PART II: BEYOND SCIENCE

Chapter 4. Moral Employments of Scientific Thought
Timothy Jenkins

Chapter 5. The Social Life of Concepts: Public and Private 'Knowledge' of Scientific Creationism
Simon Coleman

Chapter 6. The Embryo, Sacred and Profane
Marit Melhuus

Chapter 7. The Religions of Science and the Sciences of Religion in Brazil.
Roger Sansi-Roca

Chapter 8. Science in Action, Religion in Thought: Catholic Charismatics’ Notions about Illness
Maria Coma

PART III: MEANING SYSTEMS

Chapter 9. On the Resilience of Superstition
João de Pina-Cabral

Chapter 10. Religion, Magic and Practical Reason: Meaning and Everyday Life in Contemporary Ireland
Tom Inglis

Chapter 11. Can the Dead Suffer Traumas? Religion and Science after the Vietnam War
Heonik Kwon

Notes on Contributors

Religion and Science as Forms of Life

Anthropological Insights into Reason and Unreason

Edited by Carles Salazar and Joan Bestard

238 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-78238-488-5 Hb Published (January 2015)

eISBN 978-1-78238-489-2 eBook