Professor Harvey Whitehouse

Books

2004

Harvey Whitehouse
Modes of Religiosity: a cognitive theory of religious transmission, 2004, AltaMira Press: Walnut Creek, CA.

2000

Harvey Whitehouse
Arguments and Icons: divergent modes of religiosity, 2000, University of Oxford Press: Oxford.

1995

Harvey Whitehouse
Inside the Cult: religious innovation and transmission in Papua New Guinea, 1995, University of Oxford Press: Oxford.

Edited books

2007

Harvey Whitehouse
Religion, Anthropology and Cognitive Science, 2007, Carolina Academic Press: Durham.

2005

Harvey Whitehouse
History, Memory, and Cognition, special issue of Historical Reflections/ Reflexions Historiques, 2005.
Harvey Whitehouse
Mind and Religion: Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity, 2005, AltaMira Press: Walnut Creek, CA.
Harvey Whitehouse
The Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity, 2005.

2004

Harvey Whitehouse
Ritual and Memory: Towards a Comparative Anthropology of Religion, 2004, AltaMira Press: Walnut Creek, CA.
Harvey Whitehouse
Theorizing Religions Past: Archaeology, History, and Cognition, 2004, AltaMira Press: Walnut Creek, CA.
Harvey Whitehouse
Implications of Cognitive Science for the Study of Religion, 2004.

2001

Harvey Whitehouse
The Debated Mind: evolutionary psychology versus ethnography, 2001, Berg: Oxford.

Selected articles

 

2008

Cognitive Evolution and Religion; Cognition and Religious Evolution’ in Joseph Bulbulia, Richard Sosis, Erica Harris, Russell Genet, Cheryl Genet, and Karen Wyman (eds.) The Evolution of Religion: Studies, theories, and critiques, Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.

'Modes of Religiosity' in The Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin, vol. 37, No. 4, pp 108-112.

With Emma Cohen, Jonathan A. Lanman, and Robert N. McCauley 'Common Criticisms of the Cognitive Science of Religion – Answered' in The Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin, vol. 37, No. 4, pp 112-115.

2007

Towards an Integration of Ethnography, History and the Cognitive Science of Religion’ in Harvey Whitehouse and James Laidlaw (eds.) Religion, Anthropology and Cognitive Science, Durham: Carolina Academic Press

‘The Evolution and History of Religion’ in David Parkin (ed.) 2005 Oxford Centenary Conference Proceedings. (Further details to be added.)

2006

‘Appropriated and Monolithic Christianity in Melanesia’ in Fenella Cannell (ed.) The Anthropology of Christianity, Durham, NC: Duke University Press

2005

The Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity’ in Harvey Whitehouse and Robert N. McCauley (eds.) Mind and Religion: psychological and cognitive foundations of religiosity, Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press

‘Emotion, Memory, and Religious Rituals: an assessment of two theories’ in Kay Milton and Maruska Svasek (eds.) Mixed Emotions, Oxford: Berg

2004

Theorizing Religions Past’ in Harvey Whitehouse and Luther H. Martin (eds.) Theorizing Religions Past: archaeology, history, and cognition, Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press

‘Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion’ in Harvey Whitehouse and James Laidlaw (eds.) Ritual and Memory: toward a comparative anthropology of religion, Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press

2002

Modes of Religiosity: a cognitive explanation of the sociopolitical dynamics of religion. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, Vol. 14, pp 293-315

Publications

Articles