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Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict

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 | #538189 in Books |  imusti |  2015-08-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.80 x.70 x5.70l,.0 | File type: PDF | 264 pages

 | Princeton University Press

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||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Good book with some limits|By E. N. Anderson|This is a very rare book: a popular book about religion that actually builds on Durkheim's and Weber's demonstrations that religion is about society, morality, and solidarity--not a failed attempt to explain the universe, not the result of eating funny mushrooms. Norenzayan (a psychologist) builds on his and others' studies of rel|From Publishers Weekly|Why did Christianity and Islam flourish while other faiths faded into obscurity? What binds complex societies together and enables strangers to live cooperatively within them? Norenzayan, a professor of psychology at the University of Brit

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.
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict   |  Ara Norenzayan. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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