Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 248 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9781400848324
Content:
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
Content:
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 colonize most minds in the world? In Big Gods, Ara Norenzayan makes the surprising argument that these fundamental puzzles about the origins of civilization answer each other.Sincere faith in watchful Big Gods unleashed unprecedented cooperation within ever-expanding groups, yet at the same time it introduced a new source of potential conflict between competing groups. And in some parts of the world, societies with atheist majorities-some of the most cooperative and prosperous in the world-have climbed religion's ladder, and then kicked it away.Big Gods answers fundamental questions about the origins and spread of world religions and helps us understand the rise of cooperative societies without belief in gods
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Norenzayan, Ara, 1970 - Big gods Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013 9780691151212
Additional Edition:
0691151210
Additional Edition:
9780691169743
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
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Philosophy
Keywords:
Gesellschaft
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Entwicklung
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Monotheismus
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Religiosität
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Verhalten
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Religionspsychologie
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Religionssoziologie
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Gesellschaft
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Kooperatives Verhalten
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Religion
DOI:
10.1515/9781400848324
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