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The standard cognitive model: Religious representations -- No such thing as Religion -- The next frontier: Attractors and diffusion -- An example: Life-history and moralizing doctrines -- Different attractors and strategies -- 7 The Long Way from Cognitive Science to History: To Shorten the Distance and Fill in the Blanks* -- Introduction -- History, cognition, and culture -- History as a cognitive enterprise -- Conclusion -- 8 The Indispensability of Cognitive Science for a Genuine History of Religion -- History of religion as vertical anthropology -- Why resuscitate terms like "magic" and "ritual efficaciousness"? -- Accounting for magic from a cognitive science perspective -- The indispensability of cognitive science for a history of religion worth its name -- Part Three CSR 2.0 -- 9 Exiting the Motel of the Mysteries? How Historiographical Floccinaucinihilipilification Is Affecting CSR 2.0 -- Introduction -- What is CSR 2.0? -- The misunderstanding of presentism -- Unbiased hypothesis-driven research? -- The past, mathematically speaking -- If it's not dressed in a lab coat, it's not science. Or, is it? -- Conclusion: My map is (not quite exactly) your territory -- Acknowledgments -- 10 Minimal Counterintuitiveness Revisited, Again: The Role of Emotional Valence in Memory for Conceptual Incongruity -- Introduction -- Emotion and conceptual incongruities -- Subjects -- Stimuli -- Procedure -- Results -- Immediate recall -- Delayed recognition -- Summary -- Incorporating culture into future research -- Acknowledgments -- 11 Constraints on Theory-Building in the Cognitive Science of Religion with Reflections on the Influence of Physics Envy and th -- Introduction -- Physics envy -- Cohen's book review (a cautionary tale) -- The social sciences: Some considerations -- Parsimony and sufficient reason -- Big Gods -- Canaries in coal mines.