Attachment, evolution, and the psychology of religion/ Lee A. Kirkpatrick.

1. INTRODUCTION
An Ambitious Agenda
A New Direction
The Plan of This Book
2. INTRODUCTION TO ATTACHMENT THEORY
Backdrop
The Attachment System
Attachment in Adulthood
Attachment and Evolutionary Psychology
Summary and Conclusions
3. GOD AS AN ATTACHMENT FIGURE
Religion as Relationship
But Is It Really an Attachment Relationship?
Seeking and Maintaining Proximity to God
God as a Haven of Safety
God as a Secure Base
Responses to Separation and Loss
Summary and Conclusions
4. MORE ON RELrCION AS AN ATTACHMENT PROCESS:
SOME EXTENSIONS AND LIMITATIONS
Religion and Love
What Kind of Love?: Romantic Attachment
versus Attachment to God
God as a Parental Figure
Individual Differences in Images of God
Beyond God: Extensions and Limitations
Other Forms of Attachment (or Not) in Religion
Summary and Conclusions
5. INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN ATTACHMENT
AND RELIGION: THE CORRESPONDENCE HYPOTHESIS
Mental Models and the Correspondence Hypothesis
"Socialization" as an Alternative Explanation
Summary and Conclusions
6. GOD AS A SUBSTITUTE ATTACHMENT FIGURE:
THE COMPENSATION HYPOTHESIS
Individual Differences and Religious Conversion
Contextual Factors in Religious Change
Summary and Conclusions
7. ATTACHMENT IN CONTEXT:
INTRODUCTION TO EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
Evolutionary Psychology as a Paradigm or Metatheory
Adaptation and Natural Selection
Domain-Specificity and the Mental-Organs Model
Nature "versus" Nurture
Stone Age Minds in Modem Environments
Individual Differences in Evolutionary Context
Some Illustrative Examples: Politics, Music, and Sports
Summary and Conclusions
8. ATTACHMENT THEORY IN MODERN
EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE
Childhood Attachment in Modem
Evolutionary Perspective
Attachment and Reproductive Strategies
Love Revisited
Implications for the Theory of Attachment and Religion
Summary and Conclusions
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9. RELIGION: ADAPTATION OR
EVOLUTIONARY BY-PRODUCT?
Is There a Unique Religious Instinct?
Problems with the Religion-as-lnstinct View
Religion as an Evolutionary By-product, Not an Adaptation
Summary and Conclusions
10. BEYOND'ATTACHMENT: RELIGION AND OTHER
EVOLVED PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS
Power, Status, and Intrasexual Competition
Kinship
Reciprocal Altruism and Social Exchange
Coalitional Psychology
Summary and Conclusions
11. THE COGNITIVE ORIGINS OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF
Evolved Mechanisms for Thinking
about the Natural World
The Psychology of Complex Thinking:
How the Mind Works
The Cognitive Building Blocks of Religious Belief
Why Religious Beliefs Succeed
Beyond Religion: Other Forms of Thought and Belief
Summary and Conclusions
12. BEYOND GENES: LEARNING, RATIONALITY,
AND CULTURE
Natural Selection, Genes, and Inclusive Fitness
From Genes to Memes
Science Revisited
Summary and Conclusions
13. TOWARD AN EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
OF RELIGION
A Precis in (More or Less) Reverse
An Evolutionary Psychology of Religion for the Future
Summary and Conclusions