ABO U T T H E AU T H O RS MICHAL UHRIN (ORCID: 0000-0002-8062-5785) – Michal Uhrin works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Ethnology, Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University He has done ethnographic research on religion and cooperation in Slovak rural environment and mating preferences in urban environment He published numerous articles focused on the complex relationship between kinship, religion, and various forms of cooperation All his previous research is framed by theoretical concepts of evolutionary and cognitive anthropology, focusing on theories related to religion, cooperation, and rituals TATIANA BUŽEKOVÁ (ORCID: 0000-0002-9038-6298) – Tatiana Bužeková works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Ethnology, Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University She has done ethnographic research on witchcraft beliefs in Slovak villages, neo-shamanic practices in Bratislava, and religious communities in rural environment She published two books and numerous articles about Slovak folk beliefs related to misfortune, explained in terms of memory functioning, emotions, and social cognition Her works on urban shamanism in Slovakia refer to the topics of tradition, legitimisation of authority, and gender issues Several publications are dedicated to the role of moral emotions Currently she is doing research on alternative spirituality ht t p s :/ /do i o rg /1 0.3 15 7/S N 02 2.1 | A r t i cl e s 227