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frontal lobe 55–7, 148–9, 152, 160
functionalism (social) 142

Galatians (Epistle to) 45, 71–2, 95, 111,
182, 190
Game Theory 99– 100
gender differences 60–1, 148, 190n
Generative Historiography of Religion Project
(GEHIR) 4
glossolalia 149– 54
goal-demotion,seehazard-precaution system
Golden Rule 45, 170– 1
Good Samaritan (parable of ) 45, 82, 176
Greek Magical Papyri (PGM) 127, 131
group selection 30–2, 36–40, 42, 44–5, 93,
177 – 8

hallucination 145, 158– 9
hard-to-fake signals,seecommitment
signaling
hardware/software (metaphor) 9, 59
hazard-precaution system 20, 91–3, 96, 98
goal-demotion 93
healing 68–9, 76, 83, 108, 116–19, 123, 132,
134 – 5, 138–40, 152;see alsomagic
Helen, Saint 105
hermeneutics,seetheory of interpretation
Herodotus 132
Ancient History 133
hippocampus 56–9, 62–6, 69, 76
historiography 2
ancient Israelite 185
cognitive 3
Deuteronomical 6, 179
generative 4
Greco-Roman 77n
modern European 179
Hitler, Adolf 129, 139
H.M.,seeMolaison, Henry G. (H.M.)
hypersensitive agency detection device
(HADD) 33–4, 129
hypoxia 162–3;see alsoischemia

ideal biography 185
imagistic mode,seeModes Theory
imitation (as means of learning) 28, 42, 183– 5
immersion,seebaptism, (immersion) of John
inclusivefitness 40, 173, 177
inheritance systems 28, 32, 41
initiation 5, 72, 101–3, 110–13, 130, 140, 164
innovation 25, 39, 46, 141, 194, 196,
199 n, 206
instrument
of ritual 16, 114– 16
as thematic role 114
see alsoritual, special-instrument

intentionality 32, 92, 94, 128

suspension of 150, 161

intuitive ontologies,seeontology (intuitive)

Isaiah (prophet) 72, 163

Book of 72

Ascension of, seeAscension of Isaiah

ischemia 159;see alsohypoxia

Isis (goddess) 112

James (Epistle of ) 116, 127

Jesus 8, 36, 39, 43, 45, 66, 68, 72, 78–9, 81, 83,

86, 90, 95, 105–6, 110, 113, 117, 119–20,

122, 130, 132–3, 137, 139–42, 155, 164,

176, 182–4, 209–10, 213

movement 2, 7–8, 22, 44–5, 77, 79, 98,

111 – 12, 140, 153, 165, 171, 177, 185,

189 – 203

see alsodeath, of Jesus; memory, and the

Jesus tradition; name of Jesus;

resurrection (of Jesus)

Jewish religion,seeJudaism

John

First Epistle of 102

Gospel of 13–14, 36, 43–4, 66, 68, 80, 83,

137, 210

John the Baptist 8, 38, 102, 113, 116, 138, 209

Josephus (Flavius) 132, 184

Judaism 3, 36, 38, 84, 90, 97–8, 101–2, 111,

116, 118, 127, 132, 140, 142, 154–6, 163,

179, 184, 209, 216, 218;see alsoJesus,

movement

Kierkegård, Søren 207n

kin selection,seeinclusivefitness

Kings (Books of ) 133, 140, 179

Lacan, Jacques 207n

leadership (religious) 108–9, 154– 5

limbic system 55–6, 160– 1

literacy 2, 5, 22, 83–7, 185– 6

logistic growth 196–9, 203

Lord’s Supper,seeEucharist

Lucian (of Samosata),Philopseudes 140

Luke (Gospel of ) 43, 45, 66, 69, 77, 82–3, 95,

113, 133–4, 139–40, 170, 176

Machiavellian intelligence hypothesis 181

magic 1, 2, 5–6, 19–20, 32, 41, 97, 98n, 103,

117, 119, 122–40, 206

failure 131;see alsoritual, failure

sympathetic 20, 130

use of texts in 98n, 130, 213

see alsocontagion; efficacy; miracle (story);

parhedros

Mark (Gospel of ) 66, 69, 76, 120, 133, 139,

176, 185n

General Index 261