| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 arg |
| Analysis |
Atheism |
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Civil society |
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Civilisation |
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Overseas item |
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Psychology |
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Religion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Conflict management -- Religious aspects.
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Cooperation -- Religious aspects.
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Faith development -- Psychological aspects.
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Psychology -- Religious aspects.
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Psychology, Religious.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013011723 |
| ISBN |
1299779174 (electronic bk.) |
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1400848326 (electronic bk.) |
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9781299779174 (electronic bk.) |
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9781400848324 (electronic bk.) |
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