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Big Gods
How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict
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Artikel-Nr:
9780691169743
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.08.2015
Seiten:
264
Autor:
Ara Norenzayan
Gewicht:
421 g
Format:
228x154x21 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Ara Norenzayan is professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia. His work has been featured on the BBC and CNN, and in the New York Times Magazine.
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.