Abanes, Richard
Abbot, Edwin
Adaptation and Natural Selection (Williams)
Adapted Mind, The (Barkow, Tooby, and Cosmides)
African Americans

Ghost Dance of 1990s
and religion

 

afterlife

belief in
and near-death experience
and talking with the dead

 

age

and belief in God
and religiosity

 

Age of Science
agnosticism, agnostics
agreeableness and religiosity
Aish Ha Torah’s Discovery Seminars
alchemy
Alcock, John
Aldrich, Ira
Alexander, Richard
alien abductions
Allen, Steve
Altai people
alternative medicine
altruism
Ambulocetus natans
American Booksellers Association
American Enterprise Institute
American Men and Women of Science
amygdala
Anchor Bible Dictionary, The
Ancient Myth and Modern Man (Larue)
Angeles, Peter
angels

belief in

 

Animal Behavior (Alcock)
animal myths
Annals of the Old Testament, Deduced from the First Origin of the World (Ussher)
Anselm, Saint
Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism, An (Stein)
Anthropic Cosmological Principle, The (Tipler)
Anthropic Principle
Anthropological Studies of *Religion (Morris)
Antichrist
anxiety
apocalypse, apocalypticism
Apocalypse Now (film)
Apollonius of Tyana
apologetics
Applewhite, Marshall
Aquinas, St. Thomas
Arbib, Michael
Archilochus
arguments from ignorance
Aristotle
Armageddon
Arnold, Matthew
art of the insoluble
Asimov, Isaac
astrology
astronomers

and belief in God

 

astronomy
Atheism (Martin)
Atheism (Smith)
atheism, atheists
Atlantis
Atlas Shrugged (Rand)

attribution biases

in religous beliefs

 

attribution theory
Augustine, Saint
Australopithecines.
Australopithecus africanus
Axelrod, Robert
Azande

baby-boomer generation
Baha’i sect
Bahai Under the Provisions of the Covenant
Barkow, Jerome
“Barn, The” (La Crescenta, Calif.)
Barna, George
Barnes, Michael
baseball

as a system of change
superstitions

 

Basinger, David
“Battle Hymn of the Republic
B.C.–A.D. chronological system
beautiful people myth
Beauvoir, Simone de
behavioral geneticists

and religiosity

 

Behe, Michael
Belief Engine
belief formation
belief in God, see God, belief in
Bentley, Richard
Beowulf
Bergman, Gerald
Berlin Wall
Bettinger, Robert
Beyond the Cosmos (Ross)
biases in attribution
Bible

authorship of
Heaven on Earth metaphors
science facts revealed in
study of

 

Bible Code, The (Drosnin)
Bible Prophecy (Callahan)
biblical literalism
Big Foot, Chief
Binford, Lewis
bioaltruism
Bio-Cultural Pyramid
biologists and belief in God
Biology of Moral Systems, The (Alexander)
Biophilia (Wilson)
birth order and openness to experience
Bishop. George
black religious experience
Black Coyote
Blackmore, Susan
Blanke, Olaf
body and soul
Boggs, Wade
Book of Prophecies (Columbus)
book publishing
Born to Rebel (Sulloway)
Bouchard, Thomas
Boyer, Pascal
brain

chemistry of
circuits of
evolution of
God module in
and language
modular view of
and number of relationships
and religiosity
and storytelling

 

Branch Davidians
Brand, Chris
Brasher, Brenda
Brett, George
Brief History of Time. A (Hawking)
Brierre de Boismont, Alexandre
Broca’s area
Brodie, Richard
Brown, Denise
Browning, Robert
Brueghel, Pieter, the Elder
Brugger, Peter
Brunvand, Jan Harold
Bryan, William Jennings
Buckley, William F.
Buddha from Brooklyn, The (Sherrill)
Burgess Shale
Buss. Leo
butterfly effect

Callahan, Tim
Calvin, John
Campbell, Joseph
capitalism
Capra, Frank
Carew, Rod
Cargo Cult Ghost Dance
Carlyle, Thomas
Carnegie Commission study of scientists and religiosity (1969)
Casti, John
Catholicism, Catholics

belief in afterlife
belief in evolution
belief in God
recruitment and conversion

 

Century’s End (Schwartz)
Chagnon, Napoleon
chain letters
Chalice and the Blade, The [Eisler)
chance
chaos, chaos theory
Chartres Cathedral
Chaucer, Geoffrey
chemistry
Chen, Heng-ming
Chiang, Chin-Hung
Chot Chelpan
Christian atheists
Christ’s Soon Return
church attendance

and belief in God
and openness to experience
and religiosity

 

church membership rates
Church of England
Church Universal and Triumphant
Churchill, Winston
Churching of America, 1776–1990, The
City of God, The (Augustine)
Clarke, Arthur C.
Clearwater, Florida

Virgin Mary appearance

 

Clough, Arthur H.
cognitive fluidity
Cohen, Jack
cold readings
Coles, Michael
Columbus, Christopher
conditional apocalypticism
conflicting-worlds model of science and religion
conscience
conscientiousness

and religiosity

 

conservatives

and belief in God

 

Consilience (Wilson)
consilience of inductions
Consolmagno, Guy
Constantine
contingency

and freedom
and Homo sapiens
and necessity
and problem of emphasis
and problem of meaning

 

contingent-necessity
convention

and observance of religion

 

convergence of evidence
Conversations with God (Walsh)
cooperation

and human evolution

 

Copernicus
Copper Eskimo
Coppola, Francis Ford
correlation coefficient (r)
correlations
Cosmides, Leda
cosmogonies
cosmogony myths
cosmological arguments for God’s existence
cosmology

see also New Cosmology

 

Cosmos (TV series)
courage, moral
cranes

see also skyhooks

 

creation
creationism

in public schools
see also New Creationism

 

creationists

example of human eye evolution
on science

 

Creator, and the Cosmos, Creation and Time, The (Ross)
Credo Quia Consolans argument (for God’s existence)
Crichton, Michael
Critiques of God (Angeles)
Cro-Magnons
cryonics
cryptozoology
cult leaders
cults, fringe
cultural evolution
culture and genes
cyberspirituality

Damas, David
danger and magic
D’Aquili, Eugene
Darwin, Charles
Darwin on Trial (Johnson)
Darwinian literalists
Darwinian Revolution
Darwin’s Black Box (Behe)
Davies, Paul
Dawkins, Richard
Deacon, Terrence
dead, talking to
death

of God
and science

 

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Gibbon)
deists
Dembski, William
Dempsey, Father Robert
Dennett, Daniel
Descartes, René
Design/Teleological argument (for God’s existence)
Desmond, Adrian
destruction-redemption myth
determinism
Deutsch, David
devil
Diamond, Jared
Diana, Princess
Dickerson, Wizard
Diprima, Dominque
Disappearance of God, The (Friedman)
Disch, Thomas
dispositional attribution
distracted atheists
divine intervention
Does God Exist? (Taylor)
domain-general processors
domain-specific processors
Doors, The
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Downs, Hugh
dragon myths
Draper, John William
dreams and storytelling
Drosnin, Michael
Dunbar, Robin
Dürer, Albrecht
Durkheim, Émile
Dyson, Freeman

Earth

age of

 

ebene powder
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Ecker, Don
economic theories of religion
Edson, Hiram
education

and belief in God
and religiosity

 

Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Irenäus
Eighteenth Brumaire, The (Marx)
Eisler, Riane
Eliade, Mircea
Eliot, T. S.
Elson, John T.
emotions and beliefs
“End, The” (song)
End of History, The (Fukuyama)
End of the World as We Know It, The (Wojcik)
end-times
Entwined Lives (Segal)
environment

and genes
and magical thinking
and religiosity

 

environment of evolutionary adaptation (EEA)
environmentalists
epigenetic rules

for mythmaking

 

equalitarian partnership model
eschatology
eschatology myths
Essay on Man (Pope)
ethical behavior
ethology
Ethology (Eibl-Eibesfeldt)
Evans-Pritchard, Edward E.
“Eve of Destruction” (song)
Evidence Amendment Act (1869)
Evidence That Demands a Verdict (McDowell)
Evil, Problem of
evils, historical
evolution

of brain
and contingent-necessity
of the eye
fossil record
human

 

evolution theory

acceptance by Pope John Paul II
and belief in God
and religion

 

evolutionary biology
evolutionary history
Evolutionary Level Above Humans, The
evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary Stable Strategy
exclusive fitness
Existence of God, The (Hick)
existentialist atheists
extinction, mass
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Mackay)
extrasensory perception (ESP)
extraversion and religiosity
Extropians
Extropy Institute
eye

evolution of

 

Eysenck, Hans

faith

in God
and God’s existence
and miracles
negation of
and reason
and science

 

faith, leap of
falsehoods

see also thinking errors and hits

 

falsifiability problem
family
Farrakhan, Louis
feedback loop
feminism
Festinger, Leon
Fideism argument (for God’s existence)
fideism, fideists
Fides et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Relationship Between Faith and Reason (John Paul II)
Firing Line (TV program)
First Cause argument (for God’s existence)
First Three Minutes, The (Weinberg)
First Vatican Council
Five Factor Model (of personality)
Flanagan, Owen
Flatland (Abbot)
Flew, Antony
Fludd, Robert
FM-2030
Fontana, Walter
fossil record
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Franz, Frederick
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke
Frazer, James
Free Will, Problem of
freedom and contingency
Freud, Sigmund
Friedman, Richard Elliott
Fukuyama, Francis
Full House (Gould)
Fuller, R. Buckminster
“Function of General Laws in History, The” (Hempel)
fundamentalism, Christian
fundamentalism, paranormal
fuzzy logic, science of
Fuzzy Thinking (Kosko)

Galileo
Gallup poll of belief in supernatural (1991)
gambling as a form of magical thinking
Gardner, Martin
Gazzaniga, Michael
Geertz, Clifford
Geivett, Dr. Doug
gender

and belief
and belief in God
and religiosity

 

Genesis myth
General Social Surveys (1973–1994)
gene-culture coevolution
genes

and culture
and environment
and religiosity
and religious attitudes

 

Genesis and science
genetic programming

of belief in God

 

Ghiselin, Michael
Ghost Dance
ghosts
Gibbon, Edward
Gibson, Charles
Gingrich, Newt
Glaber, Radulfus
global intelligence
glorious contingency
Glynn, Patrick
God

death of
defining
described by believers
disbelief in
existence of
hidden face of
insolubility of
as a meme
nonbelief in
pattern of
philosophical argument for existence of
and religion
scientific arguments for existence of
seeking pattern of
social indicators of
synonyms for
understanding existence or nonexistence of

 

God, belief in

and age
as art of the insoluble
and church attendance
correlations, data, and statistics on
and education
evolution of
and gender
and genetic programming
and parental conflict
polls
reasons for
and religious upbringing
by scientists
and skeptics
variables that shape
why people believe

 

God, kingdom of
God and the Burden of Proof (Parsons)
God Experience
“God is dead.” (Nietzsche)
God module (in brain)
God of the Gaps argument
God Question
God: The Evidence (Glynn)
God’s Descending in Clouds (Flying Saucers) on Earth to Save People (Chen)
God’s Salvation Church
Goodenough, Ursula
gossip
Gorsuch, Richard
Gospel Fictions (Helms)
Gould, Stephen Jay
Graham, Billy
Great Disappointment
Greeley, Andrew
Grendel
Grenier, Jean
Gribbin, John
Grodin, Charles
Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language (Dunbar)
group selection
Guth, Alan

Halley’s comet
hallucinations
hallucinogenic drugs
Hamilton, William
Hammurabi code
Hanes, Leah
hard-core atheists
Hardison, Richard
Harris, Marvin
Harris, Sidney
Harrison, President Benjamin
Hasker, William
Hawking, Stephen

on God

 

heaven
Heaven on Earth
Heaven’s Gate
heavens, secular
Hebrew Bible, see Old Testament
hell
Helms, Randel
Heltzer, Ruth
Hempel, Carl
Hendel, Ronald
heritability

of religious tendencies

 

Hero with a Thousand Faces, The (Campbell)
Herod, King
Hick, John
Hidden Book in the Bible, The (Friedman)
historical sequences
history

general laws in
and social class

 

History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science (Draper)
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology, A (White)
Hitchens, Christopher
Hobbes, Thomas
Holocaust
home base hypothesis
Homo habilis
Homo sapiens
Homo symbolicus
Hood, Ralph
Hook, Sidney
hope
hot readings
Hotz, Robert Lee
how questions
How to Argue and Win Every Time (Spence)
Howe, Julia Ward
Hubble Telescope
human behavior
human rights
Humani Generis (Pius XII)
Humphrey, Nicholas
Hunsberger, Bruce
hunter-gatherer communities
Hutterites
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Huxley–Wilberforce evolution debate (1850)
Hyde, Charles L.

“Imagine” (song)
imitation, see meme
immortality
inclusive fitness
Index of Leading Spiritual Indicators (1996)
indirect altruism
Infinite in All Directions (Dyson)
Inflationary Universe, The (Guth)
insoluble, art of the
insolubility of God
Institute for Creation Research
intellectual attribution bias
intellectual reasons for belief in God
Intelligent Design Theory
interpreter brain mechanism
Interpreter’s Bible, The
Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, The
Interpreter’s One-Volume Commentary on the Bible, The
Into Thin Air (Krakauer)
Irons, William
irreducible complexity (of life)
Isaac, Glynn
It’s a Wonderful Life (film)

Jagodzinski, Wolfgang
jaguar myths
James, William
Jeffrey, Grant
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jensen, Adolf
Jensen, Arthur
Jensen, Dr. Leland
Jerome Biblical Commentary, The
Jesus Christ

and messiah myth
see also Second Coming

 

Jews

belief in afterlife
belief in God

 

Johanson, Donald
John Paul II, Pope

and acceptance of evolution theory

 

John the Divine, Saint
Johnson, Phillip
Jones, Jim
Jonestown disaster
Judaism

and belief in God
and new members
and political liberalism

 

Judgment Day depictions

Kanizsa-square illusion
Kauffman, Stuart
Kelly, Kevin
Kicking Bear
kin altruism
King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.
kingdom of God
Koenig, Harold
Komp, Diane
Konner, Melvin
Koppel, Ted
Koresh, David
Kosko, Bart
Kostner, Kevin
Krakauer, Jon
!Kung San people
Kushner, Rabbi Harold

La Barre, Weston
Landau, Misia
Landes, Richard
language

evolution of

 

Larson, Edward
Larue, Gerald
Last Judgment (Brueghel painting)
Last Judgment (Michelangelo painting)
Late Great Planet Earth, The (Lindsey)
leap of faith
Leaps of Faith (Humphrey)
Lehmann, Arthur
Lennon, John
Leuba, James
Levy, David
Lewis, C. S.
Lewontin, Richard
liberalism, political

and belief in God
and religiosity

 

life after death, see afterlife
Life Everlasting in Freedom of the Sons of God (Watchtower Society)
Life of the Cosmos, The (Smolin)
Lindsey, Hal
Linse, Pat
Literary Guide to the Bible, The
Lorenz, Edward
Los Angeles riots (1992)
Los Angeles Times poll on belief in God (1991)
Lost Gospel, The (Mack)
Luke
Luther, Martin
Lynch, Aaron

McCartney, Bill
McDowell, Josh
McGuire, Barry
Machu Picchu
Mack, Burton
McKay, Brendan
Mackay, Charles
MacLaine, Shirley
McLaughlin, James
Macquarrie, Dr. John
McRae, Murdo William
Madonna
Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion (Lehmann and Myers)
magical thinking

Azande people
and environment
and medieval mind
Neanderthal man
Sherpas
Yanomamö

 

Malinowski, Bronislaw
Man’s Place in the Universe (Wallace)
Maori Ghost Dance
Martin, Michael
Marx, Karl
Marxism
Master of the Universe (TV program)
materialism, see philosophical naturalism
mathematicians

and belief in God

 

Maven, Max
Mazet, Bruce
Medawar, Sir Peter
medicines

magical use of

 

Melanesians

Cargo Cult Ghost Dance

 

meme

and religion

 

Meme Machine, The (Blackmore)
mental modules
mentalists
Mere Christianity (Lewis)
messiah myth

and Cargo Cult Ghost Dance
Jesus as

 

Messiah Cults
methodological naturalism, see philosophical naturalism
Michelangelo
Middle Ages

Belief Engine

 

Miles, General Nelson
militant atheists
millennial meanings
millennium

and apocalypse
attraction of

 

Miller, Dr. David
Miller, William
Millerites
Mind of God, The (Davies
Mind’s Past, The (Gazzaniga)
Minnesota twins study
Minsky, Marvin
miracles
Miracles (Lewis)
Miracles argument (for God’s existence)
Mitchell, Basil
Mithen, Steven
monotheism
monsters and beasts myths
Mooney, James
Moore, Gordon
Moore, James
Moore’s law
Moral argument (for God’s existence)
moral courage
morality

evolution of
and evolution of religion

 

More, Max
Morgan, Thomas J.
Mormons
Morris, Brian
Morrison, Jim
Morrow, Tom
multiple regression analysis
multiverse model
Mundus Intellectualis (Fludd)
Murphy, Nancey
Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)
Myers, James
mysterian mystery
“Mystery of the Human Head” (Fludd)
Mystical Experience argument (for God’s existence)
Myth and Cult Among Primitive Peoples (Jensen)
mythmaking
mythology
myths

and evolution of religion
functions of
and survival
types of

 

Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries (Eliade)
Myths to Live By (Campbell)

Nahmanides
nanotechnology
narratology, see storytelling
Nation of Islam
National Academy of Sciences
National Opinion Research Center survey for belief in afterlife
Native Americans

Ghost Dance

 

natural sciences and history
natural selection
naturalism, philosophical
nature and nurture

and religiosity

 

Nature magazine survey of scientists and belief in God
Neanderthal man
near-death experiences
necessity

and contingency
see also contingent-necessity

 

negative atheism and atheists
neocortex
Nero
Nettles, Bonnie Lu
neural nets
neuroticism and religiosity
New Age spiritual movements
New Cosmology
New Creationism
New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, The
New Testament
New York Yankees
New Yorker magazine
Newburg, Andrew
Newsweek magazine
Newton, lsaac
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nightline (TV program)
no-boundary universe
nobility of spirit
Noelle, David
nonbelief in God

see also agnosticism, agnostics; atheism, atheists

 

nontheism, nontheists
North, Jay
Nostradamus
Novak, Michael
nuclear bombs
Nun Study

Old Testament
O’Leary, Stephen
Omega Point Theory
On Hallucinations (Brierre de Boismont)
On Human Nature (Wilson)
On the Beach (Shute)
ontological argument (for God’s existence)
Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seals, … (Dürer painting)
openness (to experience)

and religiosity

 

oppression-redemption myth, see messiah myth
orientation association area
origin myths
Other Side, The (TV program)
Oubré, Alondra
out-of-body experiences
Oxford Companion to the Bible, The

Pacific islanders

Cargo Cult Ghost Dance

 

Paine, Thomas
Paiute Indians
Paley, William
Pals, Daniel
Panda Principle
“Panda’s Thumb, The” (Gould)
Pannenberg, Wolfhart
pantheists
paranormal fundamentalism
Parcells, Bill
parental conflict

and belief in God
and religiosity

 

parents and religiosity
Parents Television Council survey
Pargament, Kenneth
Parsons, Keith
Pascal, Blaise
Pascal’s Wager argument (for God’s existence)
path dependency
pattern-seeking
and millennium
Paul
pea instanton
“Peace of God” movements
Peirce, Charles
Pennock, Robert
Perfection/Ontological argument (for God’s existence)
Persinger, Michael
personality

and beliefs
and religiosity

 

Peter
Peterson, Michael
petitionary prayer
Pew Research Center survey on belief in God (1997)
philosophical naturalism
Philosophy of Religion, The (Mitchell)
Physics of Immortality, The (Tipler)
physicists

and belief in God

 

piety
Pine Ridge Reservation (S.D.)
Pinker, Steven
Pittman, Sandy
Pius XII, Pope
Plantinga, Alvin
plants, magical
Plomin, Robert
plutonium
Polichak, James
political beliefs and religiosity
polytheists
Pope, Alexander
positive atheists
Possibility and Necessity argument (for God’s existence)
Postman, The (film)
postmillennial Christians
postmillennial secularists
practical atheists
pragmatism
prayer, petitionary
praying
premillennial Christians
premillennial secularists
Pre-Millennial Syndrome (PMS)
Preskill, John
Prigogine, Ilya
primates
Prime Mover argument (for God’s existence)
Princeton Survey Research Associates survey on prayer
Prisoner’s Dilemma
probability (p) and correlations
problem of emphasis

and contingency

 

Problem of Evil
Problem of Free Will
Problem of God, The (Angeles)
problem of meaning

and contingency

 

Problem of Pain, The (Lewis)
Promise Keepers
prophecy failure
Prophet, Elizabeth Claire
Proslogion (St. Anselm)
Protestant Reformation
Protestants’ belief in afterlife
psychic experience
Psychology of Religion (Hood et al.)
Psychology of Religion (Wulff)
Psychology of Religion and Coping, The (Pargament)

Questioning the Millennium (Gould)
QWERTY Principle

radical contingency
Ramachandran, Dr. Vilayanur
Rambsel, Yacov
Rand, Ayn
Rapoport, Anatol
rationalizations

and failed prophecy

 

Raymo, Chet
readings (by mentalists)
Reagan, Ronald
reason

and faith
and God’s existence

 

Reason and Religious Belief (Peterson et al.)
Reasons to Believe
reciprocal altruism
Reichenbach, Bruce
reinforcement
religion

anthropology of
as art of the insoluble
biocultural theory of
decline of, and rise of science
economic theories of
evolution of
and God
Middle Ages
models of
philosophy of
purposes of
and science
scientific study of
secular
secularization of
sociology of
supply-side
theory of
as a virus

 

religiosity

and age
and agreeableness
and brain
and church attendance
and conscientiousness
and education
and environment
and gender
and genes
interest in science and
and openness to experience
and parental conflict
and parents
and personality
and political beliefs
and political liberalism
predictors of
and skeptics
and tender-mindedness
of twins
and upbringing
variables that shape

 

religious apocalyptic scenarios
religious attribution bias
religious belief

undermining of

 

religious books
religious competition
religious conviction
religious doubt
religious naturalism
religious right
religious tendencies heritability of
renewal myth
residue problem
revelation

truth through

 

Rips, Eliyahu
Ritter, Bill
Roman empire
Roosevelt, Franklin
Rosenberg, Milt
Rosenberg, Yoav
Ross, Hugh
Ruse, Michael
Russell, Bertrand

Sacred and the Profane. The (Eliade)
Sacred Depths of Nature, The (Goodenough)
sacred science
Sagan, Carl
Saint-Jouin de Marnes, Carlulaire
same-worlds model of science and religion
Sarich, Vince
Satan
Schlessinger, Dr. Laura
Schroeder, Gerald
Schultz, Dwight
Schwartz, Hillel
science

as art of the soluble
and Extropians
and faith
and Genesis
interest in, and religiosity
and patterns
and religion
and religion, models of
and religious intensity
rise of, and decline of religion
as a type of myth

 

Science, Age of
science, sacred
Science of God, The (Schroeder)
scientism
scientists

belief in God and immortality

 

Scopes “Monkey Trial”
Scott, Eugenie
Second Coming
Secret Origins of the Bible, The (Callahan)
secular apocalyptic scenarios
secular millennialists
secular religion
secular religion of progress
secularization of religion
Segal, Nancy
Selfish Gene. The (Dawkins)
self-deception
separate-worlds model of science and religion
Seven Promises
Seven Theories of Religion (Pals)
sexes, equality between the
shapeshifting
Sherpas
Sherrill, Martha
Shroud of Turin
shunning
Shute, Nevel
Siberian Ghost Dance
Signature of God, The (Jeffrey and Rambsel)
Simpson, Nicole Brown
Sitting Bull
situational attribution
Skeptic magazine
skeptics

on belief and nonbelief in God

 

Skeptics Society
Skeptics and True Believers (Raymo)
Skeptics Survey of belief in God
Skinner, B. F.
skyhooks
Smith, Adam
Smith, George
Smith, John Maynard
Smolin, Lee
snakes

fear and fascination of

 

Snowden, David
Sober, Elliott
social class
social environment
social scientists
Sociobiology (Wilson)
socioeconomic status (SES)
Sociology of Religion, The (Weber)
soft-core atheists
soluble, art of the
Something There
soul
Soviet Union
spandrels
species altruism
speech

evolution of

 

Spence, Gerry
Spilka, Bernard
Spinoza, Baruch
spirit, nobility of
spirituality

biology of

 

Star Trek (TV program)
Statistical Science journal
Stearns, Peter
Stein, Gordon
Stephen Hawking’s Universe (TV series)
Stewart, Ian
Stewart, Jimmy
storytelling

see also mythmaking

 

Street Science (radio show)
Sulloway, Frank
Sulloway–Shermer survey of belief in God
Summa Theologica (Aquinas)
supernatural
supernatural consolation
superstition
supply-side religion
survival

and Belief Engine
and myths and superstitions

 

Swinburne, Richard
Symons, Donald
synapses

Talking to Heaven (Van Praagh)
taste aversion
Tavibo
Tavris, Carol
Taylor, A. E.
television programs

and religious or spiritual themes

 

temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE)
temporal lobe transients
tender-mindedness

and religiosity

 

theism, theists
theology and cosmology
Theories of Primitive Religion (Evans-Pritchard)
There’s a New World Coming (Lindsey)
thinking errors and hits
Thomists
Thompson, Damian
Thorne, Kip
thought contagion
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche)
Tillich, Paul
Time magazine

cover stories on religion
“Is God Dead?” cover story

 

Time/CNN end of the world poll
Tipler, Frank
Tit for Tat program
Tooby, John
Torah
trigger effect
triskaidekaphobia
Trobriand Islanders
Trumpet Shall Sound, The (Worsley)
truth

believing
rejecting
through revelation
see also thinking errors and hits

 

Truth Cannot Contradict Truth (John Paul II)
20/20 (TV program)
twins and religiosity
2001: A Space Odyssey (Clarke)
Tylor, Edward

UFOs
Unamuno, Miguel
unconditional apocalypticism
Unitarians and belief in God
United States Energy Department
universal spirit
universe
Unsolved Mysteries (TV program)
Unto Others (Sober and Wilson)
upbringing

and belief in God
and religiosity

 

urban legend
U.S. News and World Report

cover stories on religion
Second Coming poll

 

Ussher, Archbishop James

Van Praagh, James
Vanishing Hitchhiker, The (Brunvand)
Variable Ratio Schedule of reinforcement
Velikovsky, Immanuel
Virgin Mary

appearances of

 

Vyse, Stuart

Wade, Carole
Walford, Roy
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Wallace, Anthony
Walsh, Neale Donald
Walters, Barbara
warm readings
Wason, Peter
Watchtower Society
Waterworld (film)
Wealth of Nations, The (Smith)
Weber, Max
Weinberg, Steven
werewolf myths
When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Kushner)
Whewell, William
White, Andrew Dickson
White, Michael
Who Needs God (Kushner)
Who Wrote the Bible? (Friedman)
Who Wrote the Gospels? (Helms)
Who Wrote the New Testament? (Mack)
Why People Believe Weird Things (Shermer)
why questions
Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener. The (Gardner)
Williams, George
Williams, Ted
Wilson, Bill
Wilson, David Sloane
Wilson, Edward O.
Wilson, Jack, see Wovoka
Witchcraft (Evans-Pritchard)
Witchel, Alex
Witham, Larry
Witztum, Doron
Wodziwob
Wojcik, Daniel
Wonderful Life (Gould)
world, end of the
Worsley, Peter
Wounded Knee
Wovoka (Jack Wilson)
Wulff, David

Xhosa tribe

Yanomamö
year A.D. 1000
Yeats, William Butler
Yellow Bird