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Van Slyke, James A.  The Cognitive Science of Religion.  Ashgate Science and Religion Series. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2011. Link to publisher's description (Available in November 2011) 

Van Slyke, James A., Greg Peterson, Kevin S. Reimer, Warren S. Brown, and Michael S. Spezio, eds. Theology and the Science of Morality: Virtue Ethics, Exemplarity, and Cognitive Neuroscience.  New York: Routledge, 2011. Link to publisher's description (Available in March 2012)

Van Slyke, James A.  “Evolutionary and Cognitive Factors in the Emergence of Human Altruism.” Zygon 45, no. 4 (2010): 841-860. PDF

Reimer, Kevin S., Michael L. Spezio, Warren S. Brown, Gregory Peterson, and James A. Van Slyke.  “Political Courage: New Methods for the Interdisciplinary Study of Virtue.” In Science, Ethics, and Politics: Conversations and Investigations, ed. Kristen R. Monroe. Boulder: Paradigm Press, 2011. Link to book on Amazon

Van Slyke, James A. “Challenging the By-product Theory of Religion in the Cognitive Science of Religion.”  Theology & Science 8, no. 2 (2010): 163-180. PDF

Peterson, Gregory, James A. Van Slyke, Michael L. Spezio, Warren S. Brown, and Kevin S. Reimer. “The Rationality of Ultimate Concern: Moral Exemplars, Theological Ethics, and the Science of Moral Cognition.”  Theology & Science 8, no. 2 (2010): 139-161. PDF

Van Slyke, James A. “Creation, Belief, and Cognitive Science: Reduction and the Cognitive Science of Religion.” In Wesleyan Theology and Social Science: The Dance of Practical Divinity and Discovery, ed. M. Kathryn Armistead, Brad D. Strawn, and Ronald W. Wright, 69-82. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. Link to Book on Amazon.

Van Slyke, James A.   Theology in Mind: Reduction, Emergence, and Cognitive Science.  PhD. Dissertation (passed with distinction), Fuller Theological Seminary, 2008. PDF