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Aarhus University. See Religion, Cognition astonishing hypothesis, Crick on 178 and Culture Group Atta, Mohamed 1 Abrahamic mystic traditions, recognition of Augustine of Hippo 27 language’s contingency in 145, Averroës 29–30, 31 147–48, 150 Avicenna 29 Academy of Athens 26, 28 Ayer, A.J. 80 Advaita Vedanta 133 agency, as concept Bagger, Matthew 136 computational leverage provided by 184 Bartkowski, John 69–70 evolutionary emergence of 184–85 Baudrillard, Jean 169, 170 See also free will; mind, theory of behaviorism, vs. social science approach Albert the Great 31 157–58, 159 Alston, William P. 228 beliefs Althusser, Louis 63 importance of taking seriously 139–42 analysis. See explanation normative framework of, as essential for Anaxagoras 25 human action 193 Anaximines 25 scholars’ reasons for discounting 139, 141 Antiochus of Ascalon 26 Bell, Catherine 2–3, 4, 9 apophatic tradition, revival of 107 Bellah, Robert 117n21 a posteriori methodological naturalism. Bentley, Richard 37n24 See provisional (a posteriori) Berger, Peter L. methodological naturalism on functionalist approaches to religion Appleby, Peter 142 237–39 a priori methodological naturalism. on global methodological agnosticism See intrinsic (a priori) methodological 244–47 naturalism influence of personal beliefs on work of Aquinas. See Thomas Aquinas 248 Arbib, Michael 185 and methodological agnosticism Aristotelian naturalism 24 239–40, 242–43 and medieval synthesis of Aquinas on mixed forms of supernatural 29–33 statements 263n31 Aristotle on religion and meaning 117n21 distinction between nature and sky on religion as delusion or false (ouranos) in 27–28n13 consciousness 231–32 European recovery of works by 29 social constructionism of 238n59, and Greek naturalism 25 266–67, 267n39 Peripatetics and 25, 28 See also methodological atheism, Berger Armstrong, David 158 on Armstrong, Karen 120–21, 121n28 Bernstein, Richard 170 Arnal, William 4 Beyond Phenomenology (Flood) 62n30 Artificial Intelligence, as refutation of Bible, Deists’ rejection of divine revolution of mind-body dualism 187 35 Asad, Talal 206–7, 218–19 The Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins) 41 278 Index

Bloch, Marc 217 categories, critique of Block, Ned 158 cognitive science of religion’s failure to Blum, Jason address 206–7, 207–8 defense of phenomenology of religion as insufficient end in itself 208–9 161–62 in McCutcheon 208–9, 212–13, 218 critique of 162–65 Catherine of Siena 121 on ineffability 108–10, 110n8, 111 Center for Naturalism 22n3 on phenomenology of religion 65, 66 Chalmers, David 163 on reductionism of naturalist approach Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture 157 (Poewe, ed.) 241 on religious experience as subject of Cherbury, Lord Herbert of 34, 34n20, 37, phenomenology of religion 162 37n25 on separation of interpretation and Chidester, David 92 explanation 161–62 Chomsky, Noam 91 theory of meaning in 111, 113 Christianity Bodhisattva, on dual consciousness 198–99 and Aristotelian naturalism 29–33 Borges, Jorge Louis 171 de facto objection contained in de jure Boston University. See Institute for the objection to 233 Bio-Cultural Study of Religion (IBSCR) and medieval synthesis of Aquinas 24, Bottici, Chiara 57–58 28–33 Boudry, Maarten 260 and Neoplatonic naturalism 26–28 Bourdieu, Pierre 63, 170 Christianity as Old as Creation (Tindal) 35 Boyer, Pascal 215, 219 Christianity Not Mysterious (Toland) 35 Brandom, Robert 117, 120n27, 123–25 Christian literalists Braun, Willi 9 complex nature of belief statements by Brezezinski, Zbigniew 92 140–42 Buddhism history of 120–21 and dharma concept 219–20 Christian naturalism, rise of 28 recognition of language’s contingency in Christian supernaturalists, response to 146–48 neo-Darwinian biological naturalism Bultmann, Rudolf 165 43–44 Bush, Stephen 4, 110–11 Churchland, Paul and Patricia 22, 156, 157, Butler, Judith 70, 169 163, 185 Clarke, Samuel 37n24, 38 Camus, Albert 165, 176, 177 cognitive science of religion (CSR) “Can a Critic be a Caretaker too?” and academic legitimacy derived from (McCutcheon) 93 scientific method 7 canonical designators, and supernaturalism dominance of IAHRXXth World Congress 123–25 (2010) 210–11, 219 Cantrell, Michael, on methodological historical construction of religion, failure agnosticism 268, 269n44, 269–70, to address 206 269n50 imprecise use of concepts in 219 Capps, Walter 77 inadequate concept of religion in 207, Caputo, John 107 218, 219 Carnap, Rudolf 79, 80, 84 McCutcheon’s critique of 206, 207–8, The Case for God (Armstrong) 120–21, 209–10 121n28 micro-reductionism of 213, 215–17