Theorizing religions past : archaeology, history, and cognition

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1 Preface 2 The Wedding of Psychology, Ethnography & History: Methodological Bigamy or Tripartite Free Love? 3 Toward a Scientific History of Religions Part 4 The Archaeological Evidence 5 From Ohalo to Catalhoyuk: The Development of Religiosity During the Early Prehistory of Western Asia, 20,000-7,000 BC 6 No Need to Write this Down: Primary Emergence of the Doctrinal Mode in the Fifth and Fourth Millenia in Southwestern Iran 7 Graeco-Roman Antiquity 8 Old and New in Roman Religion: A Cognitive Account 9 Four Men, Two Sticks, and a Whip: Image and Doctrine in Mithraic Ritual 10 Syncretism and the Interaction of Modes of Religiosity: A Formative Perspective in "Gnostic Christian" Movements in Late Antiquity 11 Christian Traditions 12 Testing the Two Modes: Some Observations about Medieval Christianity 13 Modes of Religiosity and Changes in Popular Religious Practices at the Time of the Reformation 14 Modes of Religiosity and Types of Conversion in Medieval Europe and Modern Africa 15 Corrupt Doctrine and Doctrinal Revival: On the Nature and Limits of the Modes Theory 16 Critical Discussion 17 Critical Reflections on the "Modes of Religiosity" Argument 18 Theorizing Religions Past