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Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict
Ara Norenzayan
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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
264 pages, 10 halftones.
Size | M |
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | August 25, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9780691169743 |
Publishers | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 264 |
Dimensions | 224 × 147 × 19 mm · 414 g |
Language | English |