Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Armin W. Geertz & Jeppe Sinding Jensen -- Theoretical perspectives -- Religious narrative, cognition, and culture : approaches and definitions / Armin W. Geertz -- Framing religious narrative, cognition, and culture theoretically / Jeppe Sinding Jensen -- Levels of explanatory interpretation -- Language as an emergent function : some radical neurological and evolutionary implications / Jeppe Sinding Jensen -- The first hybrid minds on earth / Merlin Donald -- Iconology and imagination : explorations in sociogenetic economies / Chris Sinha -- The nature of narrative : schemes, genes, memes, dreams, and screams! / Rukmini Bhaya Nair -- Believing and doing : ritual action enhances religious belief / Ilkka Pyysiinen -- Cognitive approaches to the study of religious narratives -- / Pumping intuitions: religious narratives and emotional communication / Tom Sjblom -- Moses and the invasion of the body snatchers : Durkheim, cognition, and deuteronomy / Hans Jurgen Lundager Jensen -- Fantastic re-collection : cultural vs. autobiographical memory in the Exodus narrative / Laura Feldt -- Parables, cognitive shock, and spontaneous exegetical reflection / Douglas L. Gragg -- Icons and agency in the Georgian Orthodox Church / Anders Nielsen -- Towards a socio-cognitive approach to religious text : a case study inIndian epic literature / James M. Hegarty -- Pole position : space, narrative, and religion / Anders Lisdorf -- Narrativity in view of a theory of syncretism / Anita Maria Leopold -- The salience and relevance of modern Icelandic SATR : a preliminary case study in the immunology of culture / Gumundur Ingi Markisson -- Baby in a bowl and other stories : socialization in astrological narrative / Kirstine Munk -- To meet without actually meeting : cultural models of virtual rituals in 3d cyberspace / Kenneth Hansen.