‘Be careful, or you'll act corruptly and make a carved image for yourselves, in the form of a figure, the likeness male or female’ (Deut. 4:16): a commentary on Norenzayan's "Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict" (2013)
Norenzayan's book is an ambitious attempt to integrate recent research from behavioral economics and social psychology, particularly priming studies, into a book about religion. If the account is meant as an explanation of religion or big religion, it does not succeed. If it has more modest aim...
Subtitles: | Review Symposium on Ara Norenzayan: "Big Gods: how religion transformed cooperation and conflict" (2013) |
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Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2014]
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Religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 44, Issue: 4, Pages: 614-621 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Norenzayan, Ara 1970-, Big gods
/ Religion
/ Theory of evolution
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RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion BB Indigenous religions BG World religions |
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Volltext (doi) |