The Evolution of Religion and Morality (eBook, ePUB)

Volume I
Redaktion: Purzycki, Benjamin Grant; Norenzayan, Ara; Henrich, Joseph

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The volume assesses the role of religion in cooperation and prosocial behaviour using ethnographic and experimental methods in eight field sites. It presents results from the first phase of Evolution of Religion and Morality Project.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003827221
• Artikelnr.: 69148068

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Grant Purzycki is Associate Professor at Aarhus University's Department of the Study of Religion, Denmark. His books include Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics (with Richard Sosis, 2022) and The Minds of Gods: New Horizons in the Naturalistic Study of Religion (with Theiss Bendixen, 2023). Joseph Henrich currently Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. His research deploys evolutionary theory to understand how human psychology gives rise to cultural evolution and how this has shaped our species' genetic evolution. His most recent book is The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous. Ara Norenzayan is professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has published widely on the evolutionary origins of religion, and the psychology of religious diversity in today's globalized world. He is the author of Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict.

Inhaltsangabe

1. 1. The evolution of religion and morality: a synthesis of ethnographic
and experimental evidence from eight societies2. High levels of
rule-bending in a minimally religious and largely egalitarian forager
population 3. Religion and expanding the cooperative sphere in Kastom and
Christian villages on Tanna, Vanuatu 4. Religiosity and resource allocation
in Marajó, Brazil 5. Jesus vs. the ancestors: how specific religious
beliefs shape prosociality on Yasawa Island, Fiji 6. Buddhism, identity,
and class: fairness and favoritism in the Tyva Republic 7. Religion and
prosocial behavior among the Indo-Fijians 8. Big Gods in small places: the
Random Allocation Game in Mauritius