Hi Marta,
“I forgot to actually ask in my previous reply why are you actually so against evolutionary psychology?”
It’s simply bad science, often filled with loose speculation, and largely anti-religious, given the quite nearly 100% atheism or agnosticism worldview of its originators, as well as those who work in that psychology “subfield” today. Now, if only a sociologist could get answers to a properly blind and neutral survey of evolutionary psychologists, we’d have some data on that.
There’s a LOT of literature critiquing eVopsych. Not hard to find. A decent place to start, a book:
Alas Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology. Edited by Steven Rose and Hilary Rose. London, UK: Random House, 2001.
One of my favorite anti- or better post-eVopsych psychologists in Nova Scotia:
There’s even a wiki page against eVopsych: Criticism of evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia
“Ok, they’re not strictly on the subject”
You’re right; they’re not on the subject. I’d read both of those around the time they came out. His work on children doesn’t necessarily sink into eVopsych, from what I’ve seen, though he’s revealing the sink hole. If you find anywhere that Barrett actually endorses evolutionary religious studies (ERS) openly and directly, please start a thread on it, so that it can be discussed, as that would be important to consider.
This may also assist you: Evolutionary Religious Studies and Evolutionism: Should BioLogos be neutral? - #3 by Gregory
“My impression is that he believes in evolutionary origin of religion”
Could you please clarify this? Is the impression of yours from his writings (or videos) that Barrett believes “religion” (incl. Christianity) arose “strictly naturally”, i.e. without God? Is that what you mean by saying “he believes in evolutionary origin of religion”? Thanks.