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“Evolution,” in Dawn DeVries and Brian A. Gerrish, eds., The New Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology (forthcoming, 2007).
“The Philosophical Import of Contemporary Physical Cosmology,” Science and Religion 5.2 (forthcoming, 2007).
“Incongruous Goodness, Perilous Beauty, Disconcerting Truth: Ultimate Reality and Suffering In Nature,” in Robert J. Russell, Nancey Murphy, and William R. Stoeger, eds., Suffering and Cosmology: Scientific Perspectives on Suffering in Nature (Vatican City State: Vatican Observatory and Berkeley: Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 2007).
“The Use and Meaning of the Word ‘Suffering’ in Relation to Nature,” in Robert J. Russell, Nancey Murphy, and William R. Stoeger, eds., Suffering and Cosmology: Scientific Perspectives on Suffering in Nature (Vatican City State: Vatican Observatory and Berkeley: Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 2007).
“Radical Embodiment and Theological Anthropology,” in American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 28/3 (September, 2007): 346-363.
“Behind, Between, and Beyond Anthropomoprhic Models of Ultimate Reality,” Philosophia 35/3-4 (2007).
“From Grand Dreaming to Problem Solving,” guest editorial for Zygon 42/2 (June, 2007): 277-80.
“From Law and Chance in Nature to Ultimate Reality,” in Fraser Watts, ed. Creation, Law, and Probability (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2007).
“A Causation-Based Relational Metaphysics,” in John Polkinghorne and John Zizioulas, eds. The Trinity and an Entangled World: Relationality in Physical Science and Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006).
“The Significance of the Evolution of Religious Belief and Behavior for Religious Studies and Theology,” commentary and analysis essay for Patrick McNamara, ed., Evolution, Genes, and the Religious Brain, vol. 1 of Where God and Science Meet: How Brain and Evolutionary Studies Alter Our Understanding of Religion, 3 vols. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2006).
“Rational Theory Building: Beyond Modern Enthusiasm and Postmodern Refusal (A Pragmatist Philosophical Offering),” in LeRon Shults, ed., The Evolution of Rationality (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006).
“Ground-of-Being Theologies,” in Philip Clayton, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
“Comparative Natural Theology,” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 27/2&3 (May/September, 2006): 173-90.
“Comparing Religious Ideas: There’s Method in the Mob’s Madness,” in Thomas Athanasius Indinopulos, Brian C. Wilson, and James Constantine Hanges, eds., Comparing Religions: Possibilities and Perils?; Numen History of Religion Series (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006).
“The Inevitability of Religion and the Wisdom of Cooperation with Science” (in Chinese), Scientific Culture Review (2005).
“The Resilience of Religion in Secular Social Environments: A Pragmatic Analysis,” in Thomas M. Schmidt and Michael G. Parker, eds., Scientific Explanation and Religious Belief: Science and Religion in Philosophical and Public Discourse (Frankfurt: Mohr-Sieback, 2005): 58-80.
“Global Spiritual Confusion and the Neglected Problem of Excess ‘Spiritual Information’,” in Charles L. Harper, Jr., ed., Spiritual Information: 100 Perspectives (Philadelphia, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2005): 33-38.
“The Resilience of Religion in Secular Social Environments: A Pragmatic Philosophical Analysis Regarding Scientific and Religious Problems” (in Chinese), Studies in Dialectics of Nature 12/20 (2004): 79-84.
“Consciousness Expanded,” in B. V. Sreekantan and Sangeetha Menon, eds., Consciousness and Genetics: A Discussion (Bangalore, India: National Institute of Advanced Studies, 2002): 125-41.
“The State of Science-and-Religion Research at the Turn of the Century,” The Journal of Faith and Science Exchange 4 (2000): 1-14.
Primary author with Robert Cummings Neville, “On the Nature of Religion: Lessons We Have Learned,” in Neville, ed., Religious Truth (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 203-17.
Secondary author with Robert Cummings Neville, “A Contemporary Understanding of Religious Truth,” in Neville, ed., Religious Truth (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 171-201.
Secondary author with Robert Cummings Neville, “Religious Truth in the Six Traditions: A Summary,” in Neville, ed., Religious Truth (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 145-169.
Primary author with Robert Cummings Neville, “How Our Approach to Comparison Relates to Others,” in Neville, ed., Ultimate Realities (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 211-36.
Secondary author with Robert Cummings Neville, “On Comparing Religious Ideas,” in Neville, ed., Ultimate Realities (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 187-210.
Secondary author with Robert Cummings Neville, “Comparative Conclusions about Ultimate Realities,” in Neville, ed., Ultimate Realities (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 151-85.
Secondary author with Robert Cummings Neville, “Comparative Hypotheses: Cosmological Categories for the Human Condition,” in Neville, ed., The Human Condition (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 175-235. Translated into Portuguese as “Hipoteses Comparativas: Categorias cosmologicas para a condicao humana” in A Condicao Humana: 245-328.
Secondary author with Robert Cummings Neville, “On Comparing Religious Ideas,” in Neville, ed., The Human Condition (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 9-20. Translated into Portuguese as “Sobre O Comparar Ideias Religiosas” in A Condicao Humana: 45-60.
Primary author with Leslie A. Brothers, “A Neuropsychological Semiotic Model of Religious Experiences,” in Robert John Russell, et al., eds., Neurosciences and the Person: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (Vatican City State: Vatican Observatory and Berkeley: Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 1999): 348-416.
“The Use and Abuse of Biotechnology: A Modified Natural-Law Approach,” in American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 20/2 (May, 1999): 165-79.
“A Theological Challenge: Coordinating Biological, Social, and Religious Visions of Humanity,” Zygon 33/4 (December, 1998): 571-97.
“But Consciousness Isn’t Everything,” in CrossCurrents 46/2 (Summer, 1996: 215-20.
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Forthcoming: Sosis, Richard. Why are Synagogue Services so Long? An Evolutionary Examination of Jewish Ritual Signals. In Judaism and Bio-Psychology, edited by Rick Goldberg.
2008: Bulbulia, J., R. Sosis, C. Genet, R. Genet, E. Harris, K. Wyman, eds. The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques. Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.
2008: Sosis, Richard and Joseph Bulbulia. Religion in Eden, In: The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques, eds. J. Bulbulia, R. Sosis, E. Harris, C. Genet, R. Genet, K. Wyman, pp. 15-19, Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.
2008: Sosis, Richard. Pigeons, Foxholes, and the Book of Psalms: Evolved Superstitious Responses to Cope with Stress and Uncertainty. In: The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques, eds. J. Bulbulia, R. Sosis, E. Harris, C. Genet, R. Genet, K. Wyman, pp. 103-9, Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.
2008: Sosis, Richard and Candace Alcorta. Militants and Martyrs: Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion and Terrorism, In Natural Security: A Darwinian Approach to a Dangerous World, eds. R. Sagarin and T. Taylor, pp. 105-24, Berkeley: University of California Press.
2007: Sosis, Richard. Psalms for Safety: Magico-Religious Responses to Threats of Terror.Current Anthropology 48:903-911.
2007: Alcorta, Candace and Richard Sosis. Rituals of Humans and Animals. In: Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships, vol. 2, ed. Marc Bekoff, pp. 599-605, Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishers.
2007: Sosis, Richard, Howard Kress, and James Boster. Scars for War: Evaluating Alternative Signaling Explanations for Cross-Cultural Variance in Ritual Costs. Evolution and Human Behavior 28:234-247.2007: Ruffle, Bradley and Richard Sosis. Does it Pay to Pray? Costly Ritual and Cooperation. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 7:1-35 (Article 18).
2007: Sosis, Richard. Breaking the Wrong Spell: Review of "Breaking the Spell" by Daniel Dennett. Free Inquiry 27:59-60.
2006: Sosis, Richard. Religious Behaviors, Badges, and Bans: Signaling Theory and the Evolution of Religion. In: Where God and Science Meet: How Brain and Evolutionary Studies Alter Our Understanding of Religion, Volume 1: Evolution, Genes, and the Religious Brain, ed. Patrick McNamara, pp. 61-86, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
2006: Alcorta, Candace and Richard Sosis. Why Ritual Works: A Rejection of the By-Product Hypothesis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29:613-614.
2006: Ruffle, Bradley and Richard Sosis. Cooperation and the In-Group-Out-Group Bias: A Field Test on Israeli Kibbutz Members and City Residents. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 60:147-163.
2005: Sosis, Richard and Candace Alcorta, eds. Special issue of Human Nature on Evolution of Religion.
2005: Alcorta, Candace and Richard Sosis. Ritual, Emotion, and Sacred Symbols: The Evolution of Religion as an Adaptive Complex. Human Nature 16:323-359.
2005: Sosis, Richard. Does Religion Promote Trust? The Role of Signaling, Reputation, and Punishment. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 1:1-30 (Article 7).
2005: Sosis, Richard. Methods do Matter: Variation in Experimental Methodologies and Results. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28:834-835.
2004: Sosis, Richard and Candace Alcorta. Is Religion Adaptive? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27:749-750.
2004: Sosis, Richard. Insights from Ifaluk: Food Sharing Among Cooperative Fishers. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27:568-569.
2004: Sosis, Richard and Bradley Ruffle On Ritual and Cooperation Current Anthropology 45:529-531.
2004: Sosis, Richard and Bradley Ruffle. Ideology, Religion, and the Evolution of Cooperation: Field Tests on Israeli Kibbutzim. Research in Economic Anthropology 23:89-117.
2004: Sosis, Richard. The Adaptive Value of Religious Ritual. American Scientist 92:166-172.
2004: Sosis, Richard. Preaching Morality and Metaphysics: Review of The Evolution of Morality and Religion by Donald M. Broom. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19:566-567.
2003: Sosis, Richard and Candace Alcorta. Signaling, Solidarity, and the Sacred: The Evolution of Religious Behavior. Evolutionary Anthropology 12:264-274
2003: Sosis, Richard and Bradley Ruffle. Religious Ritual and Cooperation: Testing for a Relationship on Israeli Religious and Secular Kibbutzim. Current Anthropology 44:713-722
2003: Sosis, Richard. Why aren't we all Hutterites? Costly signaling theory and religious behavior. Human Nature 14:91-127.
2003: Sosis, Richard and Eric Bressler. Cooperation and commune longevity: A test of the costly signaling theory of religion. Cross-Cultural Research 37:211-239
2003: Sosis, Richard. Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society by David Sloan Wilson. Evolution and Human Behavior 24:137-143.
2002: Sosis, Richard. Comment for Rousseau's whale hunt? Coordination among big-game hunters. Current Anthropology: 43:553-554.
2000: Sosis, Richard Costly signaling and torch fishing on Ifaluk Atoll. Evolution and Human Behavior 21:223-244.
2000: Sosis, Richard Religion and intra-group cooperation: preliminary results of a comparative analysis of utopian communities. Cross-Cultural Research 34:70-87.
2000: Sosis, Richard. The emergence and stability of cooperative fishing on Ifaluk Atoll. In: Human Behavior and Adaptation: an Anthropological Perspective, eds. L. Cronk, N. Chagnon, and B. Irons, pp. 437-472, New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
2000: Sosis, Richard. Review of Ever Since Adam and Eve: the Evolution of Human Sexuality by Malcolm Potts and Roger Short, Evolution and Human Behavior 21:291-294.1998: Sosis, Richard, Sharon Feldstein, and Kim Hill. Bargaining theory and cooperative fishing participation on Ifaluk Atoll. Human Nature 9:163-203.
1997: Sosis, Richard and Kim Hill. Comment for Delayed reciprocity and tolerated theft: the behavioral ecology of food-sharing strategies. Current Anthropology 38:73-74.
1997: Sosis, Richard and Kim Hill. Comment for Consumption and production: sharing and the social construction of use-value. Current Anthropology 38:42-43.
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McNamara, P., & Szent-Imrey, R. (in press). Understanding miracles in relationship to standard religious experiences. In J. H. Ellens (Ed.), The psychology and science of miracle healings, Volume 1, Religious and spiritual events. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Harris, E., & McNamara, P. (2007). Is religiousness a biocultural adaptation? In R. Genet, C. Genet, J. Bulbulia, E. Harris, R. Sosis, & K. Wyman (Eds.), The evolution of religion: Studies, theories, and critiques. Collins Family Foundation.
McNamara, P., Durso, R., & Brown, A. (2006). Religiosity in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Neuropsychiatric Disease & Treatment, 2(3), 341-348.
Emmons, R., & McNamara, P. (2006). Sacred emotions and affective neuroscience: Gratitude, costly-signaling, and the brain. In P. McNamara (Ed.), Where God and science meet: How brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion: Volume I: Evolution, genes, and the religious brain (pp. 11-30). Westport, CT: Praeger Perspectives.
Park, C., & McNamara, P. (2006). Religion, meaning, and the brain. In P. McNamara (Ed.), Where God and science meet: How brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion: Volume III: The psychology of religious experience (pp. 67-89). Westport, CT: Praeger Perspectives.
Paloutzian, R., Swenson, E., & McNamara, P. (2006). Religious conversion, spiritual transformation, and the neurocognition of meaning making. In P. McNamara (Ed.), Where God and science meet: How brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion: Volume II: The neurology of religious experience (pp. 151-169). Westport, CT: Praeger Perspectives.
McNamara, P., Durso, R., Brown, A., & Harris, E. (2006). The chemistry of religiosity: Evidence from patients with Parkinson’s disease. In P. McNamara (Ed.), Where God and science meet: How brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion: Volume II: The neurology of religious experience (pp. 1-14). Westport, CT: Praeger Perspectives.
McNamara, P. (Ed.). (2006). The frontal lobes, and the evolution of cooperation and religion. In Where God and science meet: How brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion: Volume II: The neurology of religious experience (pp. 189-204). Westport, CT: Praeger Perspectives.
McNamara, P., Andresen, J., & Gellard, J. (2003). Relation of religiosity and scores on verbal and non-verbal fluency tests to subjective reports of health in the elderly. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 13(4), 259-271.
McNamara, P. (2002). The frontal lobes, social intelligence, and religious worship. Ideas for Creative Research in Neurobiology. The John Templeton Foundation (pp. 50-59).
McNamara, P. (2002). The motivational origins of religious practices. Zygon: A Journal of Science and Religion, 37(1), 143-160.
McNamara, P. (2001). Religion and the frontal lobes. In J. Andresen (Ed.), Religion in mind (pp. 237-256). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
McNamara, P. (1992). A transpersonal approach to memory. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 24(1), 61-78.
