The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume II

LANG, Martin, Benjamin Grant PURZYCKI, Joseph HENRICH a Ara NORENZAYAN. The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume II. New York: Routledge, 2024. ISBN 978-1-032-62407-5.

Základní údaje

• Originální název: The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume II
• Autoři: LANG, Martin, Benjamin Grant PURZYCKI, Joseph HENRICH a Ara NORENZAYAN.
• Vydání: New York, 2024.
• Nakladatel: Routledge

Další údaje

• Originální jazyk: angličtina
• Typ výsledku: Editorství odborné knihy
• Obor: 60304 Religious studies
• Stát vydavatele: Spojené státy
• Utajení: není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
• Forma vydání: tištěná verze "print"
• WWW: URL
• Organizační jednotka: Filozofická fakulta
• ISBN: 978-1-032-62407-5
• Klíčová slova anglicky: evolution of religion; morality; cooperation; moralizing gods; cross-cultural studies
• Příznaky: Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Anotace

This volume draws on a unique dataset to answer pressing questions about human religiosity. Building upon the first volume in this series, it presents results from the second phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) project. The second volume investigates key questions in the evolutionary and cognitive sciences of religion and highlights cultural variability and context specificity of diverse religious systems. Chapters draw on a dataset comprising 2,228 participants from 15 ethnographically diverse societies that stretch from Africa and India through Oceania to South America, and include hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, horticulturalists, subsistence farmers and wage laborers. Four chapters using the full dataset answer the following questions: What are the general predictors of commitment to supernatural agents? Is there a gender gap in religiosity? Does belief in punitive gods facilitates cooperation? Are supernatural agents implicitly associated with moral concerns? Chapters from individual field sites further explore the distinction between moralizing and local gods, the potentially disruptive role of belief in local gods on cooperation with anonymous co-religionists, and the relationship between belief in moralizing gods, cooperation, and differential access to material resources. Above these empirical studies, the book also includes an informed discussion with specialists on the challenges of running such a large cross-cultural project and gives concrete recommendations for future projects. The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume II will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of religious studies, human evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, the cultural evolution of religion and the sociology of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion, Brain & Behavior.