Slingerland, Edward and Brenton Sullivan. “Durkheim With Data: The Database of Religious History (DRH),” (PDF) Journal of the American Academy of Religion 85.2: 312-347 (2017). *

Norenzayan, Ara, Azim Shariff, Aiyana Willard, Edward Slingerland, Will Gervais, Rita McNamara and Joseph Henrich. “Parochial Prosocial Religions: Historical and Contemporary Evidence for a Cultural Evolutionary Process.” (PDF) Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2016).

“Big Gods, Historical Explanation, and Bringing Religious Studies Out of the Intellectual Ghetto,” (PDF) Religion (September 2015). *

“Crafting Bowls, Cultivating Sprouts: Unavoidable Tensions in Early Chinese Confucianism,” (PDF) Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 14.2: 211-218. *

“Scientific Morality,” in This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress, ed. John Brockman, 365-368. New York: Harper (2015).

Norenzayan, Ara, Azim Shariff, Aiyana Willard, Edward Slingerland, Will Gervais, Rita McNamara and Joseph Henrich. “The Cultural Evolution of Prosocial Religions,” (PDF) Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2014). *

Jiang, Ashlan Falletta-Cowden, Sveinn Sigurdsson, Rita McNamara, Madeline Sands, Shirajum Munira, Edward Slingerland and Joseph Henrich. “Impartial Institutions, Pathogen Stress and the Expanding Social Network” (PDF) (12 manuscript pages), Human Nature (October 2014).

“Toward a Second Wave of Consilience in the Cognitive Scientific Study of Religion” , (PDF) Journal for Cognitive Historiography 1.1: 121-130 (2013). *

Bulbulia, Joseph, Armin Geertz, Quentin Atkinson, Emma Cohen, Joseph Henrich, Ara Norenzayan, Edward Slingerland, Harvey Whitehouse, Thomas Widlok and David Sloan Wilson. “The Cultural Evolution of Religion: Group Report 4,” (PDF) in Cultural Evolution: Strüngmann Forum Reports, Vol. 12, ed. Peter Richerson and Morton Christiansen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2013). *

Norenzayan, Ara, Joseph Henrich and Edward Slingerland. “Religious Prosociality: A Synthesis,” (PDF) in Cultural Evolution: Strüngmann Forum Reports, Vol. 12, ed. Peter Richerson and Morton Christiansen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2013). *

Slingerland, Edward, Joseph Henrich and Ara Norenzayan. “The Evolution of Prosocial Religions,” (PDF) in Cultural Evolution: Strüngmann Forum Reports, Vol. 12, ed. Peter Richerson and Morton Christiansen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2013). *

“Cognitive Science and Religious Thought: The Case of Psychological Interiority in the Analects,” (PDF) in Mental Culture: Classical Social Theory and the Cognitive Science of Religion, ed. Dimitris Xygalatas and Lee McCorkle. London: Acumen Publishing, Religion, Cognition and Culture Series (2013). *

“Body and Mind in Early China: An Integrated Humanities-Science Approach,” (PDF) Journal of the American Academy of Religion 81.1: 6-55 (March 2013). *

JAAR #43 most-read article as of August 2016

Portions to be reprinted in “China as the Radical “Other”: Lessons for the Cognitive Science of Religion,” in Is Religion Natural? The Chinese Challenge, ed. Ryan Hornbeck, Elizabeth Seiver and Justin Barrett (Forthcoming)

Modified version reprinted as “Interdisciplinary Methods in Chinese Philosophy: Comparative Philosophy and the Case Example of Mind- Body Holism,” in Research Handbook on Methodology in Chinese Philosophy, ed. Sor Hoon Tan, pp. 323-351. London: Bloomsbury (2016).

Turchin, Peter, Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter François, Edward Slingerland and Mark Collard. “A Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution.” (PDF) Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History 3: 271–293 (December 2012).

“Mind-Body Dualism and the Two Cultures,” (PDF) in Creating Consilience, Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities, ed. Edward Slingerland and Mark Collard, 74-87. New York: Oxford University Press (2012). *

Slingerland, Edward and Mark Collard. “Creating Consilience: Toward a Second Wave,” (PDF) in Creating Consilience, Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities, ed. Edward Slingerland and Mark Collard, 3-40. New York: Oxford University Press (2012). *

“Back to the Future: A Response to Martin and Wiebe,” (PDF) Journal of the American Academy of Religion 80.3: 611-617 (2012).

“邁向經驗上可信賴的論理學：認知科學，德性論理，與中國早期思想德‘不費力注意’” [A re-refereed and updated version of a 2010 book chapter, “Toward an Empirically Responsible Ethics: Cognitive Science, Virtue Ethics, and Effortless Attention in Early Chinese Thought,” (PDF) translated by 马鼎当 into Chinese], 中國哲學與文化 [The Journal of Chinese Philosophy and Culture] 9: 35-75 (May 2012). *

Slingerland, Edward and Maciej Chudek. “The Challenges of Qualitatively Coding Ancient Texts,” (PDF) Cognitive Science 36.2: 183-186 (March 2012). *

Bulbulia, Joseph and Edward Slingerland. “Religious Studies as a Life Science,” (PDF) Numen 59.5: 564–613 (2012). *