Big Gods How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict

Name: Big Gods How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict
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ISBN: 9780691151212

ISBN-10: 0691151210

ISBN-13: 9780691151212

Edition: 2013

Authors: Ara Norenzayan

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How did human societies scale up from small, 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 colonize most minds in the world? In Big Gods, Ara Norenzayan makes the surprising and provocative argument that these fundamental puzzles about the origins of civilization are one and the same, and answer each other.Once human minds could conceive of supernatural beings, Norenzayan argues, the stage was set for rapid cultural and historical changes that eventually led to large societies with Big…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/6/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.53" long x 0.99" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


The Eight Principles of Big Gods



Religious Evolution



Supernatural Watchers



Pressure from Above



In Big Gods We Trust



Freethinkers as Freeriders



True Believers



Big Gods for Big Groups



The Gods of Cooperation and Competition



From Religious Cooperation to Religious Conflict



Cooperation without God


Notes


References


Index