Building Blocks of Religion

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

• 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