Do Big Gods cause anything?

Although the author is sympathetic to Norenzayan's book, he takes issue with three crucial problems, namely the issues of causality, atheism, and hunter-gatherer cultures. He argues that assigning Big Gods a causal role in the development of large-scale, complex societies is highly problematic,...

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1. Verfasser: Geertz, Armin W. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: 2014
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Norenzayan, Ara > Wildbeuter > Gottesvorstellung > Entwicklung > Atheismus
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Zusammenfassung:Although the author is sympathetic to Norenzayan's book, he takes issue with three crucial problems, namely the issues of causality, atheism, and hunter-gatherer cultures. He argues that assigning Big Gods a causal role in the development of large-scale, complex societies is highly problematic, that attempts to explain atheism are also based on misplaced causal assumptions, and that evidence on hunter-gatherers collected on the basis of evolutionary theories should be more critically analyzed.
ISSN:0048-721X