Big Gods : : How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict /

Big Gods : : How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict / / Ara Norenzayan.

How did human societies scale up from tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous, cooperative societies of today-even though anonymity is the enemy of cooperation? How did organized religions with "Big Gods"-the great monotheistic and polytheistic faiths-spread to coloni...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Norenzayan, Ara,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 10 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Religious Evolution
  • Chapter 2. Supernatural Watchers
  • Chapter 3. Pressure from Above
  • Chapter 4. In Big Gods We Trust
  • Chapter 5. Freethinkers as Freeriders
  • Chapter 6. True Believers
  • Chapter 7. Big Gods for Big Groups
  • Chapter 8. The Gods of Cooperation and Competition
  • Chapter 9. From Religious Cooperation to Religious Conflict
  • Chapter 10. Cooperation without God
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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