Introductory books:
Boyer, Pascal. 2001. Religion Explained. The Human Instincts That Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors. Basic Books.
Tremlin, Todd. 2006. Minds and Gods. The Cognitive Foundations of Religion. Oxford (Selected pages)
Articles (connected to lectures)
Jensen, Jeppe Sinding. 2009. 'Religion as the unitended product of brain functions in the 'standard cognitive science of religion model'. In: Stausberg, Michael (ed.): Contemporary Theories of Religion. A critical companion. Routledge, p. 129-155.
Barrett, Justin L. "Exploring the natural foundations of religion." Trends in cognitive sciences 4, no. 1 (2000): 29-34.
Guthrie, Stewart. "A cognitive theory of religion [and comments and reply]." Current Anthropology 21.2 (1980): 181-203.
Tooby, John, and Leda Cosmides. "The psychological foundations of culture." The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (1992): 19-136.
Sperber, Daniel. 1996 [1984]. Anthropology and Psychology. Towards an Epidemiology of Representations. Reprinted in: Daniel Sperber: Explaining Culture. Blackwell, p. 56-76.
Martin, Luther. 2005. Towards a Cognitive History of Religions. In: Revista de Estudos da Religiao 4, 7-18.
Boyer, Pascal. "Religious thought and behaviour as by-products of brain function." Trends in cognitive sciences 7, no. 3 (2003): 119-124.
Lawson, Thomas and Robert McCauley. 1991. Rethinking Religion. Connceting Cognition and Culture. Cambridge University Press: Chapter 1: Interpretation and explanation, 12-31.
McCauley, Robert N., and E. Thomas Lawson. "Cognition, religious ritual, and archaeology." The archaeology of ritual 3 (2007): 209-254.
Whitehouse, Harvey. "Modes of religiosity: Towards a cognitive explanation of the sociopolitical dynamics of religion." Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 14, no. 3 (2002): 293-315.
Zunshine, Liza. 2008. Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible. Baltimore (selected pages)
Feldt, Laura. "Fantastic Re-Collection: Cultural vs. Autobiographical Memory in the Exodus Narrative." Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture: Image and Word in the Mind of Narrative (2011): 191-208.
Clark, Andy. "Radical Predictive Processing." Southern Journal of Philosophy 53 (S1):3-27 (2015).
Andersen, Marc. "Predictive coding in agency detection." Religion, Brain & Behavior (2017): 1-20. Including response articles.
Additional reading: Articles (depending on focus area):
Schank, Roger C., and Robert P. Abelson. "Scripts, plans, and knowledge." In IJCAI, pp. 151-157. 1975.
Schj?dt, Uffe & Armin W. Geertz. 2017. 'The Beautiful Butterfly: On the History of and Prospects for the Cognitive Science of Religion.' In: Martin, Luther H & Donald Wiebe (eds.): Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years. Bloomsbury, p. 57-67.
S?rensen, Jesper. 2017. 'The Effects of Relative Stable Feedback Loops: Cognitive Science and Historical Explanations'. In: Martin,
Luther H & Donald Wiebe (eds.): Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years. Bloomsbury, p. 143-152.
Recommended additional reading (depending on focus area):
Pyysi?inen, Ilkka. 2009. Supernatural Agents. Why we Believe in Souls, Gods, and Buddhas. Oxford University Press. (Selected pages)
Boyd, Brian. 2009. The origin of stories. Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction. Harvard University Press (Selected Pages)
Zunshine, Liza (ed.). 2010. Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies. John Hopkins University Press (Selected contributions)
Morin, Oliver. 2016. How Traditions Live and Die. Oxford. (Selected Pages)
Burke, Michael and Emily T. Troscianko (eds.). 2017. Cognitive Literary Science. Dialogues between Literature and Cognition. Oxford. (Selected contributions).
Hohwy, Jakob. 2013. The predictive mind. Oxford.
Clark, Andy. 2016. Surfing Uncertainty. Prediction, Action and the Embodied Mind. Oxford.
Additional Resources:
Check out the Religion X Youtube channel with a full course on the Cognitive Science of Religion devised by Ted Slingerland and Azim Shariff:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNBQqqt7UnTQ8CuCbfwV4gA