Evolutionary psychology of religion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutiona ... f_religion
The Cognition, Religion, and Theology project
www.cam.ox.ac.uk/research/cognition-rel ... -theology/
...a new £1.9 million project on the
natural foundations of religion. ... The project seeks to support scientific projects that promise to yield new evidence regarding
how the structures of human minds inform and constrain religious expression including ideas about gods and spirits, the afterlife, spirit possession, prayer, ritual, religious expertise, and connections between religious thought and morality and pro-social behavior.