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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Norenzayan, Ara, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]
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.