Big Gods : How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict /
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 fa...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.