KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ, Eva, Martin LANG, Peter MAŇO, Radek KUNDT and Dimitrios XYGALATAS. Effects of sorcery beliefs on parochial prosociality in Mauritius. In Cultural Evolution Society Conference 2021. 2021.
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Original name Effects of sorcery beliefs on parochial prosociality in Mauritius
Authors KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ, Eva, Martin LANG, Peter MAŇO, Radek KUNDT and Dimitrios XYGALATAS.
Edition Cultural Evolution Society Conference 2021, 2021.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 60304 Religious studies
Country of publisher Japan
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English sorcery; magic; ancestor worship; parochial prosociality; economic games
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Ivona Vrzalová, učo 361753. Changed: 15/2/2022 22:41.
Abstract
While previous studies testing evolutionary models of religious morality found that beliefs in moralizing and punitive gods decrease local favoritism and increase resource-sharing with distant co-religionists, the effects of beliefs related to local supernatural agents have not been extensively explored. Nam (the spirit of a deceased person) beliefs are quite ambiguous because the spirit may be linked to ancestor worship but also to the practice of sorcery (illegal in Mauritius). Importantly, previous studies suggested that sorcery beliefs and practices can have a damaging impact on social bonds and trust, but such research is often limited by social stigma associated with sorcery and relevant comparison with other local deities is often missing. We show that endorsing the sorcery mode of belief in nam together with performing rituals toward nam was associated with larger probability of breaking the game rules for selfish outcomes in the Random Allocation Game (compared to the ancestor worship mode).
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