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Parsons, Talcott
Passover (Pesach)
Paul, Saint
peacemaking and reconciliation
Nathagura
and
witchcraft and
peacocks, peahens
Peires, J. B.
Peninsula War
Pentateuch
Pentecostalists
Pentz, Peter
Peoples Temple Agricultural Project
percussive instruments
Peru
Peter, Saint
pews
Phillips, Kevin
Philo
Piaget, Jean
pigs
Pinker, Steven
plagues
Pleistocene
Plutarch
politics
Polo, Marco
polygyny
Pomeroy, Sarah
Popp, Volker
population:
growth of
religious adjustment of size of
potlatch ceremonies
prayer
predetermination
Presbyterians
Price, George
priests
transformation of religion and
primates
see also
apes ; chimpanzees; monkeys
Primitive Culture
(Tylor)
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, The
(Weber)
Protestantism
Protestant Reformation
proto-religion
Puin, Gerd
Puritanism
Putnam, Robert
Pythia
Quakers
Qur’an Tafsir
racial superiority
Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred
Rappaport, Roy
rational choice theory
reciprocity
religion:
borders and
darker side of
definitions of
differences vs. commonalities of
etymology of word
evolution of,
see
evolution of religion
future of
nature of
new, starting of
origin of
pathologies of
social and personal nature of
universal elements of
religiosity, studies of
Renan, Ernest
reproduction
fertility control and
religious adjustment of population size and
revelation
Reynolds, Vernon
ritual
of American Civil Religion
belief vs.
and evolution of religion
language and
warfare and
see also
dance; initiation rites; music
Roman empire
Christianity in,
see
Christianity, in Roman
empire competing sects in
ecology of religion and
falling birthrate in
Jews in
Rosh Ha-Shanah
Rouget, Gilbert
Ryan, Leo
sacred texts
see also
Bible; Qur’an
sacred vs. profane
sacrifice
altruism and
animal
of Aztecs
child
food and
Sanders, E. P.
San José Mogote
Saracens
Sargon II, king of Assyria
Sarhili, Xhosa king
Sassanids
Saudi Arabia
Saul, King
Schachter, Steven
Schwartz, Glenn
science
Scotland
self-interest
selfishness
separation of church and state
settled societies
ancestral religion suppressed in
transformation of religion in,
see
transformation of religion
sex, sexual intercourse
sexual morality
sexual selection
Shahrvaraz
Shakers
shamans
Shang dynasty
Shield, Renee Rose
Silberman, Neil Asher
Skinner, B. F.
Smith, Adam
Smith, Joseph
social capital
social cohesion
of Christians
dance and
of Jews
military drill and
music and
in the U.S.
warfare and
social rules, ability to learn
Sociobiology
(Wilson)
Sol (Sol Invictus)
Solomon, King
Sosis, Richard
soul
South Africa
Soviet Union
Spain
speaking in tongues
Spencer, Baldwin
spirit-child theory of conception
Stanner, W.E.H.
Stark, Rodney
Stewart, Lyman
Sukkot
supernatural realm
access to
evolution of religion and
!Kung people and
omniscience of
punishment and, see divine retribution
religion without
transformation of religion and
see
also
God;
specific gods
survival advantage
music and
reputation and
survival of the fittest
Sweden
symbols, sacred
Syria
Syriac
taboos
Taliban
Tanner, Ralph
Temple of the Crater Lake
Tertullian
Theodosius, Roman emperor
Theophilus, Egyptian patriarch
Theories of Primitive Religion
(Evans -Pritchard)
Tilcajete
Titus
Tonkinson, Robert
Torah
totemism
trade
trance
dance
drugs and
supernatural world and
transformation of religion
and church struggle with ecstatic religion
interpretation of supernatural and
in Oaxaca Valley
in Old World
Treatise on Human Nature
(Hume)
tree of religion
and alternative hypothesis about Islam
borders and
origins of Islam in
origins of Judaism in
rise of Christianity in
and shaping of Christianity
Trehub, Sandra
Trinity
Trivers, Robert
Trobriand Islands
trolley problems
trust
affinity fraud and
Trust
(Fukuyama)
Tsembaga
Turkey
Tylor, Edward
ulema
Umayyad dynasty
United States
civil religion in
Puritan founding of
religious marketplace in
social capital in
Universal People
Upper Paleolithic period
Urabunna tribe
Urban II, Pope
usury
’Uthmann, Caliph
Varieties of Religious Experience, The
(James)
Vespasian, Roman emperor
Vico, Giambattista
virgin birth
Visotsky, Burton L.
Wahhab, Ibn Abd al-
Wansbrough, John
Waqidi, Al-
warfare
causes of
ecology of religion and
evolution and
group selection and
of !Kung people
morality and
shaping religion for
training for
Yanomamo and
Warramunga people
Washington, George
weapons
Weber, Max
Wellhausen, Julius
Wellington, Duke of
Westphalia, Peace of (1648)
Whelan, Estelle
Whitehouse, Harvey
Williams, George
Wilson, Barrie
Wilson, David Sloan
Wilson, Edward O.
Witchcraft Among the Azande
(Evans-Pritchard)
witch doctors
Xhosa
Yanomamo
Yarmuk, battle of (636)
Zeno
Zulus

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