Building Blocks of Religion

Goeran Larsson is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Gothenburg. Jonas Svensson is a Professor in the Study of Religions at Linnaeus University. Andreas Nordin is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Gothenburg.

• PrefaceBy Way of IntroductionGoeran Larsson, Andreas Nordin and Jonas Svensson1. The Building Block Approach: An OverviewAnn Taves, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Egil Asprem, Stockholm University2. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Analysing the Reception of and Debate over the Building Block ApproachGoeran Larsson 3. Fantastic Stories, Emotions, and Ancient Religions: Open Questions and Ideas in Conversation with the Building Block and Worldviews Ap-proachLaura Feldt, University of Southern Denmark4. Counterintuitive Supernaturalism as a Building Block of Religious Dream ImageryAndreas Nordin5. Invisible Hands and Sacred Unicorns: `Occulture' as a Schema for Supernatural Ascriptions in the Millennial GenerationIngela Visuri, Soedertoern University6. Qur'ans through the Lens of Moral Foundations: An Eplorative Study of Qur'an Transaltions in a Building Block FrameworkJonas Svensson7. Computing Consilience: How Modeling and Simulation can Contrib-ute to Worldview StudiesF. LeRon Shults, University of Agder, Kristiansand8. Comments and ReflectionsAnn Taves and Egil Asprem