The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume II - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032624086 ISBN 13: 9781032624082

Verlag: Routledge, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

The volume draws on a unique dataset from 15 field sites to answer pressing questions about human religiosity. Building upon the first volume, it presents results from the second phase of Evolution of Religion and Morality project.

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Martin Lang is Assistant Professor at LEVYNA: Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. His work focuses on the question of whether and how religious beliefs and behaviours facilitate cooperation.

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).

Ara Norenzayan is Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, 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.

Joseph Henrich is 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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1032624086
• ISBN 13: 9781032624082
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 254
• Herausgeber: Lang Martin, Purzycki Benjamin Grant, Henrich Joseph, Norenzayan Ara
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH; GPSR@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Deutschland