The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume I - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1032624035 ISBN 13: 9781032624037

Verlag: Routledge, 2023

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The volume assesses the role of religion in cooperation and prosocial behaviour using ethnographic and experimental methods in eight field sites. It presents results from the first phase of Evolution of Religion and Morality Project.

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Benjamin Grant Purzycki is Associate Professor at Aarhus University's Department of the Study of Religion, Denmark. His books include Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics (with Richard Sosis, 2022) and The Minds of Gods: New Horizons in the Naturalistic Study of Religion (with Theiss Bendixen, 2023).

Joseph Henrich currently Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. His research deploys evolutionary theory to understand how human psychology gives rise to cultural evolution and how this has shaped our species' genetic evolution. His most recent book is The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous.

Ara Norenzayan is professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has published widely on the evolutionary origins of religion, and the psychology of religious diversity in today's globalized world. He is the author of Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1032624035
• ISBN 13: 9781032624037
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180
• Herausgeber: Purzycki Benjamin Grant, Henrich Joseph, Norenzayan Ara
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