1. The vitalities of Çatalhöyük Ian Hodder; Part I. Vital Religion: The Evolutionary Context of Religion at Çatalhöyük: 2. Different strokes for different folks: Near Eastern Neolithic mortuary practices in perspective Nigel Goring-Morris and Anna Belfer-Cohen; 3. Excavating theogonies: anthropomorphic promiscuity and sociographic prudery in the Neolithic and now LeRon Shults; 4. Religion as anthropomorphism at Çatalhöyük Stewart Guthrie; 5. The historical self: memory and religion at Çatalhöyük J. Wentzel van Huyssteen; 6. Modes of religiosity and the evolution of social complexity at Çatalhöyük Harvey Whitehouse, Camilla Mazzucato, Ian Hodder and Quentin D. Atkinson; Part II. Vital Materials at Çatalhöyük: 7. Relational networks and religious sodalities at Çatalhöyük Barbara Mills; 8. Using 'magic' to think from the material: tracing distributed agency, revelation, and concealment at Çatalhöyük Carolyn Nakamura and Peter Pels; 9. 'Motherbaby': a death in childbirth at Çatalhöyük Kimberley Patton and Lori Hager; 10. The hau of the house Mary Weismantel; 11. Material register, surface, and form at Çatalhöyük Victor Buchli; 12. The use of spatial order in Çatalhöyük material culture Anke Kamerman; Part III. Vital Data: 13. Theories and their data: interdisciplinary interactions at Çatalhöyük Ian Hodder.