Religious belief and cooperation: a view from Viking-Age Scandinavia
This study focuses on two hypotheses at the heart of a debate concerning cooperation, socio-political complexity, and religious belief. One of these contends that moralizing high gods (MHGs) were central to the development of complex societies. The key mechanism here is supernatural monitoring, whic...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
[2019]
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Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2019, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 2-22 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Scandinavia
/ Germanic peoples
/ Religion
/ Supreme Being
/ Moral judgment
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia NBC Doctrine of God |
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Vikings
B socio-political complexity B Norse Religion B Cooperation B Prosociality B moralizing high gods B Scandinavia B supernatural monitoring and punishment |
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