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Jonathan Lanman is a Professor of Cognitive Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast, affiliated with the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics and the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. He holds a DPhil (Oxford), MSc (Oxford), MA (Missouri), and BA (Southeast Missouri State). His research focuses on the scientific study of religion, with two main strands: atheism/secularization and religious identity/ritual. Lanman integrates cognitive, evolutionary, and social science theories with ethnographic methods, emphasizing international contexts including the North Atlantic and Japan.
**Education**: DPhil in Anthropology (Oxford), MSc in Anthropology (Oxford), MA in Religious Studies (Missouri), BA in Anthropology (Southeast Missouri State). **Affiliations**: Assistant Director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture; former Departmental Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Oxford; Visiting Fellow at UBC. **Grants**: Lead on £2.3m "Understanding Unbelief" (Templeton Foundation) and £3.2m "Ritual, Community, and Conflict" (ESRC). **Awards**: Distinguished Fellow (Aarhus), President of the International Association for Cognitive Science of Religion.
**Research Interests**: Atheism origins and societal distribution, cognitive biases in secularization, ritual-induced group cohesion, and self-sacrificial behavior. Notable projects include "Explaining Atheism" and analyzing CREDs (credibility-enhancing displays) in religious authority. **Media Engagement**: Featured in BBC, The Times, Newsweek Japan, and podcasts like The Religious Studies Project.
**Supervision**: Open to PhDs in cognitive anthropology of religion/atheism. **Labs/Teams**: Leads the Institute of Cognition and Culture and collaborates internationally on projects like the Non-Religion and Secularity Research Network.
