QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Feynman)
quantum electrodynamics
questioning
questionnaire design
questionnaire for belief in God
quid pro quo bargains
Quine, W. V. O
Quinian crossword puzzle
Â
rabbis
racism
rain dances
Ramachandran, Vilayanur
Ramadan
R & D (research and development)
randomness
Rappaport, Roy
Rapture
rational choice
rationales
represented
See also free-floating rationale
rationality
rats
Ratzinger, Cardinal
reading, religion compared to
Reagan, Ronald
âReal Patternsâ (Dennett)
receptor molecules
recipes
âred-diaper babiesâ
reductionism
red wine
reflection
reflexivity
Reform Judaism
regularities, environmental
rehearsal
reinforcement, random
relativism
moral
of truth
religion
academic smoke screen for
âacuteâ versus âchronic,â
artifice and design in practices of
as attractive nuisance
births of
as bringing out the best in people
buyerâs guide to
can science study religion?
concern that investigation will destroy
core phenomenon of
as costly
defining
designed features of
devotion to
division of labor in
early days of
essence of
evolutionary underpinnings of
evolution of
going bad
growth market in
hypotheses on future of
legal and social status of
as making us better
meaning of life provided by
money-theories of
and morality
music compared with
as natural phenomenon
need for scientific examination of
now what do we do?
number of religions
pearl theory of
philosophy contrasted with
as Priestertrug,
putting allegiance to democratic principles above
raisons dâêtre for
raw materials of
roots of
religion (cont.)
sacrifices on behalf of
scientific research on
sexual-selection theories of
should science study religion?
sweet-tooth theories of
symbiont theories of
systematic invulnerability to disconfirmation in
today
what it can do for you
why break the spell
See also cults; faith; folk religion; God (gods); organized religion; prayer; ritual
Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought (Boyer)
religious avowals, everyone as outsider to othersâ
religious experience
replication
codes for
as condition of natural selection
of DNA
of ideas
See also cultural replicators; differential replication
representing our representations
reputation
research
interdisciplinary
questions for further
theological
research and development (R & D)
resolution
revealed religion
revelation
revival preachers
revolution of the proletariat
rewards
in heaven
otherworldly
rhabdomancy
rhyme
rhythm
Richerson, Peter
Rifkind, Basil
ritualas
awesome show
as cost of religion
as distraction from root phenomenon
of folk religion
as memory-enhancement device
rationales for
research questions about
selection for talent for
self-perpetuating
susceptibility to
RNA viruses
robots
Rock
ârocket science, â
Rocks of Ages (Gould)
role model, God as
Roman Catholic Church on alcohol
Catholicism center in brain
Catholicism gene
âdesign review boardâ processes in
doctrinal emphasis of
on evolution
on miracles
no salvation outside the Church
possible future of
scientific confirmation sought by
in spread of AIDS
on transubstantiation
vocations after Vatican
Romance languages
romantic love
Rooney, Andy
roses, sweetness of smell of
rote learning
Rougement, Denis de
Rouse, V.
Rowling, J. K.
Ruby Ridge
Rue, Loyal
rule of law
rules, personal
runaway sexual selection
Rushdie, Salman
Â
saccharine
Sacks, Oliver
sacred, the
âsacred dishonesty, â
sacred texts
copying of
disrespecting
dying to protect
in historical arguments for existence of God
inerrant interpretation of
selectivity among
See also Bible
sacred values
sacrifices, religious
sacrifices on behalf of religion
sacrilege
saintliness
Saint Matthew Passion (Bach)
salvation
Sam (gas pumper)
Sanctity of Human Life, principle of
âsanctuary, â
Santa Claus
Satan
satanic cults
Satanic Verses, The (Rushdie)
Schelling, Thomas
Schönborn, Christoph
schooling of fish
science
apophaticism in
belief in
belief in integrity of
as blabbermouth who ruins a movie
can it study religion?
conceptual revisions in
constraints on method of
controversies in
disconfirmation in
everything in Nature as topic of
âhardâ versus âsoft, â
inquiry destroying its object
Islamist view of
as âjust another religion, â
as making the familiar strange
natural versus interpretive
outmoded terminology in
practical knowledge versus
as reliable source of knowledge
religious people using
research on religion
should it study religion?
taboo against examination of religion by
understanding versus believing propositions of
what pays for science?
See also social science
science fiction
science studies
Scientology
Seabright, Paul
séances
search engines
sea squirts
Second Coming of Christ
secondhand smoke
second law of thermodynamics
second-order intentionality
secrets
secular humanism
secularism
secularization
segregation
self, letting go of
self-causation
self-help
self-interest
Selfish Gene, The (Dawkins)
selflessness
self-selection in survey response
semiotics
semipropositional representations
Sen, Amartya
Sentinelese
separation of church and state
September
Serbs
settlements on âholy soil, â
sexiness
sexism
sexuality, study of
sexually transmitted diseases
sexual reproduction, evolutionary explanation of
sexual revolution
sexual-selection theories
Shakers
Shakespeare, William
shamans
and disconfirmation
guilds of
as hypnotists
as mutualist
public rituals of
sharks
Sharlet, Jeffrey
Shea, Christopher
sheep, wild
Shehadeh, Raja
Sherfey, John
Sherlockians
Shermer, Michael
Shinto
Shiva
Shroud of Turin
sick-minded people
Siegel, Lee
Sikhs
Silver, Mitchell
Simpsons, The,
SIS
skepticism
and benign effects of religion