Big Gods - How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict
Verlag | Princeton University Press |
Auflage | 2015 |
Seiten | 264 |
Format | 14,4 x 22,3 x 1,7 cm |
Gewicht | 378 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 0691169748 |
EAN | 9780691169743 |
Bestell-Nr | 69116974EA |
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.