Do Big Gods cause anything?
Although the author is sympathetic to Norenzayan's book, he takes issue with three crucial problems, namely the issues of causality, atheism, and hunter-gatherer cultures. He argues that assigning Big Gods a causal role in the development of large-scale, complex societies is highly problematic,...
| Nebentitel: | Review Symposium on Ara Norenzayan: "Big Gods: how religion transformed cooperation and conflict" (2013) |
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch/Druck Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2014]
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| In: |
Religion
Jahr: 2014, Band: 44, Heft: 4, Seiten: 609-613 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Norenzayan, Ara 1970-, Big gods
/ Wildbeuter
/ Gottesvorstellung
/ Entwicklung
/ Atheismus
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus AE Religionspsychologie AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion BG Weltreligionen |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Although the author is sympathetic to Norenzayan's book, he takes issue with three crucial problems, namely the issues of causality, atheism, and hunter-gatherer cultures. He argues that assigning Big Gods a causal role in the development of large-scale, complex societies is highly problematic, that attempts to explain atheism are also based on misplaced causal assumptions, and that evidence on hunter-gatherers collected on the basis of evolutionary theories should be more critically analyzed. |
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| ISSN: | 0048-721X |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2014.937052 |