Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict

by Ara Norenzayan

Book Overview

A groundbreaking account of how religion made society possible

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 makes the surprising...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691169748
• ISBN13: 9780691169743
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"