‘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...
| Autres titres: | Review Symposium on Ara Norenzayan: "Big Gods: how religion transformed cooperation and conflict" (2013) |
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| Type de support: | Numérique/imprimé Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2014]
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| Dans: |
Religion
Année: 2014, Volume: 44, Numéro: 4, Pages: 614-621 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Norenzayan, Ara 1970-, Big gods
/ Religion
/ Théorie de l'évolution
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophie de la religion AE Psychologie de la religion AG Vie religieuse BB Religions traditionnelles ou tribales BG Grandes religions |
| Accès en ligne: |
Volltext (doi) |
| Résumé: | 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 aims, namely to describe how surveillance institutions, of which big religion is one important class, can sometimes lead to cooperation and conflict, then it is quite successful in doing so. |
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| ISSN: | 0048-721X |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2014.937055 |