Professor Harvey Whitehouse

Selected articles and book chapters

2010

Quentin D. Atkinson and Harvey Whitehouse
‘The cultural morphospace of ritual form; Examining modes of religiosity cross-culturally’, Evolution and Human Behavior 32 (1), 2010, pp. 50-62.
Ryan McKay, Charles Efferson, Harvey Whitehouse and Ernst Fehr
‘Wrath of God: religious primes and punishment’, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , 2010.
Harvey Whitehouse and Ian Hodder
‘Modes of Religiosity at Çatalhöyük’, In Ian Hodder , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

2009

Harvey Whitehouse
‘Religious Universals and Religious Variation’, Groningen Studies in Cultural Change Series , 2009.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘Graeco-Roman Religions and the Cognitive Science of Religion’, In Luther H. Martin and Panayotis Pachis (eds) Imagistic Traditions in the Graeco-Roman World, Vanias: Thessaloniki, 2009.

2008

Harvey Whitehouse
‘Modes of Religiosity’, The Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin 37 (4), 2008, pp. 108-112.
Emma Cohen, Jonathan A. Lanman, Robert N. McCauley and Harvey Whitehouse
‘Common criticisms of the Cognitive Science of Religion - Answered’, The Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin 37 (4), 2008, pp. 112-115.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘Cognitive Evolution and Religion; Cognition and Religious Evolution’, In Joseph Bulbulia, Richard Sosis, Erica Harris, Russell Genet, Cheryl Genet, and Karen Wyman (eds) , Collins Foundation Press: Santa Margarita, CA, 2008, pp. 31-41.

2007

Harvey Whitehouse and James Laidlaw
‘Introduction’, Religion, Anthropology and Cognitive Science , 2007.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘The Evolution and History of Religion’, 2005 Oxford Centenary Conference Proceedings , 2007.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘Towards an Integration of Ethnography, History and the Cognitive Science of Religion’, Religion, Anthropology and Cognitive Science , 2007.

2006

Harvey Whitehouse
‘Terror’, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion , 2006.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘Cognition et religion’, Croyance, raison et déraison , 2006.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘Transmission’, Theorizing Rituals , 2006.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘Appropriated and Monolithic Christianity in Melanesia’, The Anthropology of Christianity , 2006.

2005

Harvey Whitehouse
‘Cognitive Historiography: When Science Meets Art’, Historical Reflections/ Reflexions Historiques 31 (2), 2005, pp. 307-318.
Robert N. McCauley and Harvey Whitehouse
‘New Frontiers in the Cognitive Science of Religion’, Journal of Cognition and Culture 5 (1–2), 2005, pp. 1–13.
Harvey Whitehouse and Rebekah A. Richert and Emma Stewart
‘Memory and Analogical Thinking in High-Arousal Rituals’, Mind and Religion: psychological and cognitive foundations of religiosity , 2005.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘The Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity’, Mind and Religion: psychological and cognitive foundations of religiosity , 2005.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘Emotion, Memory, and Religious Rituals: an assessment of two theories’, Mixed Emotions , 2005.

2004

Harvey Whitehouse
‘Modes of Religiosity and the Cognitive Science of Religion’, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 16 (2), 2004, pp. 321-335.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘Theorizing Religions Past’, Theorizing Religions Past: archaeology, history, and cognition , 2004.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion’, Ritual and Memory: toward a comparative anthropology of religion , 2004.

2003

Harvey Whitehouse
‘Why Do We Need Cognitive Theories of Religion?’, Religion as a Human Capacity: a festschrift in honor of E. Thomas Lawson , 2003.

2002

Harvey Whitehouse
‘Religious Reflexivity and Transmissive Frequency’, Social Anthropology 10 (1), 2002, pp. 91-103.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘Conjectures, Refutations, and Verification: towards a testable theory of modes of religiosity’, Journal of Ritual Studies 16 (2), 2002, pp. 44-59.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘Implicit and Explicit Knowledge in the Domain of Ritual’, Cognition and Religion: cross-disciplinary perspectives , 2002.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘Modes of Religiosity: a cognitive explanation of the sociopolitical dynamics of religion’, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 14 , 2002, pp. 293-315.

2001

Harvey Whitehouse
‘Transmissive Frequency, Ritual, and Exegesis’, Journal of Cognition and Culture 1 (2), 2001, pp. 167-182.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘Conclusion: towards a reconciliation’, The Debated Mind: evolutionary psychology versus ethnography , 2001.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘Introduction’, The Debated Mind: evolutionary psychology versus ethnography , 2001.

2000

Harvey Whitehouse
‘Cultural Cognition and Psychopathology: anthopological perspectives’, Cultural Cognition and Pyschopathology , 2000.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘Ordine e disordine nella religione Melanesian’, Etnosistemi 7 , 2000, pp. 28-36.

1998

Harvey Whitehouse
‘From Mission to Movement: the impact of Christianity on patterns of political association in Papua New Guinea’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 4 (1), 1998, pp. 43-63.

1996

Harvey Whitehouse
‘From Possession to Apotheosis: transformation and disguise in the leadership of a cargo movement’, Leadership and change in the Western Pacific , 1996.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘Indigenous Music and Ritual’ and ‘A Synchretic Context: Mali Baining’, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music 9 , 1996.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘Apparitions, Orations, and Rings: experience of spirits in Dadul’, Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind , 1996.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘Rites of Terror: emotion, metaphor, and memory in Melanesian initiation cults’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 2 (4), 1996, pp. 703-715.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘Jungles and Computers: neuronal group selection and the epidemiology of representations’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 1 (1), 1996, pp. 99-116.

1994

Harvey Whitehouse
‘Strong Words and Forceful Winds: religious experience and political process in Melanesia’, Oceania 65 (1), 1994, pp. 40-58.

1992

Harvey Whitehouse
‘Memorable Religions: transmission, codification, and change in divergent Melanesian contexts’, Man (N.S.) 27 (3), 1992, pp. 777-797.

1991

Harvey Whitehouse
‘Cargoism, Millennialism, and Idealism’, Cambridge Anthropology 15 (1), 1991, pp. 70-84.
Harvey Whitehouse
‘Leaders and Logics, Persons and Polities’, History and Anthropology 6 (1), 1991, pp. 103-124.