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McCauley, R. N. and Graham, G. (2020). Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind: What Mental Abnormalities Can Teach Us about Religions. New York: Oxford University Press.

McCauley, R. N. (with E. Thomas Lawson). (2017). Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion: A Head Start. London: Bloomsbury.

McCauley, R. N.  (2011).  Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not.  New York:  Oxford University Press.  (i-xv, 326 pages plus index)

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Whitehouse, H. and McCauley, R. N. (2005). Mind and Religion: Cognitive and Psychological Foundations of Religiosity. Walnut Grove, CA: Alta Mira Press.

McCauley, R. N. and Lawson, E. T. (2002). Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McCauley, R. N. (ed.) (1996). The Churchlands and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. “Introduction,” 1-13 and chapter 1, 17-47 (see Articles and Book Chapters section).

Lawson, E. T. and McCauley, R. N. (1990). Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.