Religious Evolution and the Axial Age: From Shamans to Priests to Prophets

Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Figures and Tables -- Prologue -- Chapter 1: What Religion Is -- Defining religion -- Spirits and gods -- Religious rituals -- Religious specialists -- Chapter 2: The Evolutionary Forms of the Relig...

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1. VerfasserIn: Sanderson, Stephen K. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: London Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2018
In:Jahr: 2018
Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift:Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation Ser
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520 |a A new interpretation: urbanization, war, and disrupted attachments -- Toward an empirical test -- Theoretical reprise -- Chapter 8: Religion Past, Present, and Future -- Do religions progress? -- Why atheism? -- The future of religion -- Coda: is God a delusion? -- Appendix A: Codes for Stage of Religious Evolution in the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample -- Appendix B: Ancient Cities and Estimated City Sizes -- Notes -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Bibliography 
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