Big Gods. How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict - Ara Norenzayan

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.

tytuł oryginału

Big Gods. How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict

data wydania

25 sierpnia 2013

ISBN

9781400848324

liczba stron

264

język

angielski