Later Research and Career
Whitehouse has published numerous books and articles including a trilogy of authored books outlining his theory of Modes of Religiosity. This has prompted substantial critical literature, including 3 international conferences. Efforts to test the predictions of the modes theory have used case studies (ethnographic, historical, and archaeological), cross-cultural survey, controlled experiment, and computational modelling. Whitehouse’s most longstanding cross-disciplinary collaborators include anthropologist James Laidlaw (Cambridge), historian Luther H. Martin (Vermont), philosopher Robert N. McCauley (Emory), archaeologist Ian Hodder (Stanford), biologist David Sloan Wilson (Binghamton), psychologists Cristine Legare (University of Texas at Austin) and Ryan McKay (Royal Holloway), modellers Michael Hochberg (Montpellier) and Quentin Atkinson (Auckland).
Whitehouse was founding director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture (Queen’s University Belfast) and the Centre for Anthropology and Mind (University of Oxford). While Head of the School of Anthropology at the University of Oxford (2006-2009) he was integral in establishing the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology. Whitehouse has been principal investigator on several large collaborative initiatives including: the Explaining Religion project, funded by the European Commission and the Ritual, Community and Conflict project funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council.
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