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Index
abortion
Abrahamic religions
God becoming more abstract and
depersonalized in
similarities between
See also Christianity; Islam; Judaism
absolutes
Absolute Unitary Being
academic treatment of religion
accident
Acheulean handaxes
acquired tastes
âactions speak louder than words,â
Acton, Lord
Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of
Religion (Stark and Finke)
acute religion
Adam and Eve
addiction
Addison, Joseph
adoration, God as object of
adultery
advertising
shamanic
truth in
Aesop
After God: The Future of Religion (Cupitt)
agents
in animism
full-access
gods as
self-interest of
spiritual and mythological
agnosticism
agriculture
AIDS
Ainslie, George
Akshardham temple
alarm calls
Albright, Carol Rausch
alcohol
addiction to
children and
evolution of desire for
Muslim attitude toward
Prohibition
variation in ability to metabolize
Alcoholics Anonymous
Algeria
Alhambra
Allah
allegiance to sports teams
Almighty, the
alphabets
Al Qaeda
altricial species
altruism
American Religious Identification Survey
(ARIS)
amnestics
ancestors
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andersen, Hans Christian
animals
alarm calls of
alcohol consumed by
cruelty to
domesticated
fantasy lacking in
genetic imperatives governing
laboratory
traditions of
See also birds; insects; mammals
animate motion
animism
anomalies, counterintuitive
Anselm, Saint
anthrax
Anthropic Principle
Anthropologist on Mars, An (Sacks)
anthropology
as about behavior, not belief
divisions in
informants as not always expert
relativism in
in science studies
subjects affected by
unenviable reputation of
anthropomorphism
as appealing
and arguments for existence of God
shift from
tension with other attributes
antiglobalist terrorism
anti-Semitism
ants
colonies
Dicrocelium dendriticum parasitizing
âanything goes,â
Apartheid
apes
curiosity of
fantasy lacking in
groups of
as threatened with extinction
See also chimpanzees
apologetics
apophaticism
apostasy
architecture, religious
Argument from Design
Argument from Evil
arguments for existence of God
ARIS (American Religious Identification
Survey)
armed forces, religious fanatics as most reliable in
arms races
Armstrong, Karen
Armstrong, Louis
arrows, invulnerability to
art
artifice in
as making the familiar strange
religious
why other species donât have
See also music
artifice, recognizing
Artificial Life
artificial self-replicators
Ashbrook, James B.
Asians
astrology
astronomy
Aswan Dam
atheism, atheists
and attitude toward the sacred
avoiding complicity in religion
âbelieversâ as not
believing in belief in God
as bright
electing atheist to office
examination welcomed by
as lacking values
and moral commitment
about most gods
pre-emptive disqualification of
reading Bible as literature in
sacred values in
of scholars of religion
on scientific research on religion
of Spinoza
Spong associated with
atomism
atoms, knowledge of
Atran, Scott
attention, as limited