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Published
Princeton University Press, August 2015
ISBN
9780691169743
Format
Softcover, 264 pages
Dimensions
22.9cm × 14.6cm

Big Gods How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict by

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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 m

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