perceptual symbols 15
perspective taking 169, 171, 186
Peter
apostle 69, 115n, 127, 140
First Epistle of 113, 119
phenomenology (of religion) 119–20,
142, 146
Philemon (Epistle to) 182n
Philippians (Epistle to) 184
Philo (of Alexandria) 132, 184
Contemplative Life 106
phonological loop 65, 67
Plato
Apology of Socrates 184
Laws 99
Symposium 99
Pliny the Elder,Natural History 139
Pomio Kivung 107– 8
prayer 42, 95–9, 103–4, 106, 118, 119, 127,
132, 151
Lord’s Prayer 90, 96, 98
public 96, 106
pre-frontal cortex 57, 152
Prisoner’s Dilemma 100
prophecy 108, 152, 154
Proverbs (Book of ) 98
Psalms (Book of ) 18, 38, 75, 97, 98, 175
Pseudo-Clementines 140
purity 166;see alsocontagion; morality
qualia 143, 145
Quintilianus, M. Fabius,Institutio oratoria 75
Quran 217
rain-making 6, 126– 8
reader-response criticism 213
reading community 214
reciprocal altruism 30, 32, 37, 45, 173–4, 177
recursion 18, 32, 35– 6
relationship system 175– 7
religious experience 2, 6, 32, 141–65, 206,
208, 214
and attribution theory 145
extreme 6, 142, 157–60, 164– 5
Lobes Theory of 6, 149–55, 164– 5
moderate 6, 142, 145, 149– 50
and REM-sleep (rapid-eye-movement
sleep) 18, 159
resonant 150–4, 165
and sleep paralysis 159, 164
sui generis 143– 4
volitional 150–1, 165
see alsoascension (experience); entheogens;
out-of-body experience; near-death
experience; tours of heaven
resurrection (of Jesus) 43, 81, 119
Revelation (Book of ) 142, 156, 165, 175
rhetoricians (ancient) 139
ritual 5, 16–20, 32, 41–2, 78, 88–121, 123–6,
128 n, 129–31, 148, 150–2, 154–5, 164–5,
175, 178, 188, 210, 212– 14
and action 16–17, 20, 88, 90–4, 114– 15
and communication 18–19, 38, 41–2,
100 – 1, 104–5, 107–8, 195
and cooperation 19, 32, 41–2, 99–106, 178
efficacy 5, 118–19, 123– 4
failure 117
high-arousal 108
special-agent 17, 116–17, 210
special-instrument 117
special-patient 116– 18
and stress 41, 97, 111–13, 154;see also
memory, and stress
see alsocommitment signaling; magic;
hazard-precaution system; Ritual Form
Theory; ritualization; routinization;
Modes Theory
Ritual Form Theory 5, 16–17, 114–18, 210
ritualization 20, 92–6, 99, 120
Romans (Epistle to) 37, 95, 114, 119, 182,
190, 209
routinization 94, 107;see alsoritualizationsacrifice (religious) 37, 109, 116, 128, 152
Samuel (Books of ) 72, 179
schema (cognitive) 67–9, 74–6, 81–3, 87, 109,
213, 216
script
cognitive 69–76, 81, 87, 109, 213, 216
ritual 20, 92– 5
sensory cortex (primary somatosensory
cortex) 56–7, 85
serial recall (in oral performace) 74–6, 81,
85, 87
Sermon on the Mount 87, 90, 96–9,
103 – 4, 106
serotonin,seeneurotransmitters, serotonin
sexual selection 26–7, 32, 38–40, 101
and religion 38– 9
sexuality 12, 91, 109, 174, 182, 185
shaman 142, 156–7, 164– 5
Simon Magus 137, 140, 156
singing 105, 123
Sirach (Wisdom of ) 98
social brain hypothesis 181
social networks 7, 37, 155, 171, 174,
189 – 91, 208
socialization system 175– 6
Socrates 184, 187
Spirit (Holy Spirit) 125, 130, 135, 138,
139 – 41, 151, 152n, 153–5, 164, 211
splinter group,seeModes TheoryGeneral Index 263