Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict by Norenzayan Ara

Author:Norenzayan, Ara [Norenzayan, Ara]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2013-08-24T16:00:00+00:00

The anthropological record tells us that in moving from the smallest scale human societies to largest and most complex human societies, the following patterns emerge:

• Big Gods go from relatively rare to increasingly common.

• Morality and religion move from largely disconnected to increasingly intertwined.

• Rituals and other credible displays of faith become increasingly organized, uniform, and regular.

• Supernatural punishment becomes increasingly focused on violations of group norms (prohibitions on cheating, selfishness, but also on adultery, food taboos), and the potency of supernatural punishment increases (for example, salvation, eternal damnation, eons of karma, hell).

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