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Chapter 9 of the book "Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought" is presented. It explains the existence and common features of religion as the result of aggregate relevance and the activation of a whole variety of mental systems. It presents experimental evidence that different inference systems are triggered by religious cues making them appear intuitively plausible. It examines the requirement of clarity and consistency in religious traditions along with mental processes that lead people away from clear and supported beliefs.

Chapter 8 of the book "Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought" is presented. It focuses on the phenomena that embodies facts, that religion is the concern of social groups, that there are different doctrines, that there are exclusive and incompatible claims to truth, and that fundamentalist violence is a real threat in many parts of the world. It discusses various religious concepts and practices to differentiate between norms and facts. It presents combinations of viewpoints and normative ideals internal to individuals.

Chapter 7 of the book "Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought" is presented. It describes rituals as occasions for people to commune with gods and spirits, to partake in a transcendent world through highly emotional experience, where specific rules organize the performance. It explains three important properties of rituals, such as the connection between what is being acted and its effect is not obvious, it bears consequences for social interaction, and it includes notions of supernatural agents.

Chapter 6 of the book "Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought" is presented. Its focus is the ritualization of death which is an ancient human activity. It discusses the origin of religion in terms of concepts and emotions about death, including the universal fear of mortality. Several death rituals are described which are akin to rites of passage in marriage or initiation. It highlights general traits of human thinking that accompany death such as the pollution of the dead and examines children's intuitions about death.

Chapter 5 of the book "Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought" is presented. It emphasizes the connection between misfortune and religion that is salient the world over. It explains three ways that connect religion and morality in terms gods or ancestors deciding what norms would be, that they provide a model to follow, and they are interested parties in moral choices. It discusses two general accounts of moral development in terms of reasoning based on principles and feelings.

Chapter 4 of the book "Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought" is presented. It explains that religious concepts are expressions of beliefs about how the world works and may include interactions with agents that are beings with special qualities and special powers. It presents gods and spirits construed as persons as one of the best known traits of religion, due to man's anthropomorphic tendency to view supernatural forces as person-like agents who rule destinies.

Chapter 3 of the book "Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought" is presented. It explains that a good part of religious concepts is hidden from conscious inspection which highlights the function of inference systems in all normal human minds, that are developed by evolutionary history, in developing perceptions based on specialized principles. It presents a study of developing minds which reveals a series of skeletal principles, initial biases and specialized skills that result in adult concepts.

Chapter 2 of the book "Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought" is presented. It examines the function of intuitions in investigating religious concepts about objects and events not ordinarily experienced. It demonstrates how new information are included in the mental encyclopedia using ontological categories and inferences to create expectations of religious representations. It discusses templates in religious concepts based on counterintuitive biological features, and default expectations from ontological categories.

Chapter 1 of the book "Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought" is presented. It explains that religious beliefs and behaviors may be understood in the way all human minds work, just as the diversity of religion can be understood by the precise description of how brains receive and organize information. It presents several anthropological findings on the diversity of religion and examines various religious concepts in terms of providing comfort, its function in society and the social mind, and as a flaw in mental functioning.