Conference: “Religion, Evolution and Social bonding” - ISSR Summer Conference.

The conference is open to all evolutionary approaches to religion, but will focus particularly on themes relating to the current ISSR research project — Religion and the Social Brain.

Conference themes include the following:

• How religion gradually evolved, and when it really became ‘religion.’
• The interplay of social, biological and cognitive factors in the evolution of religion.
• The particular contribution of religion to social bonding and group size.
• The positive contribution that religion made to human evolution more generally.
• Evolutionary perspectives on contemporary religion.
• The theological and philosophical significance of the evolution of religion

A Call for Papers is currently open for this conference. The submission deadline for abstracts is May 27, 2019.

For all details, list of plenary speakers, and registration form and fees:  https://www.issrconference.org