Birth of the moralizing gods
- Kind
- Journal Article
- Date
- August 2015
- Publisher
- Science
- Volume / pages
- Vol. 349 no. 6251 pp. 918-922
- Retrieved
- Nov 9, 2015
- Via
- DOI: 10.1126/science.349.6251.918
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The Big Gods Hypothesis
...without supernatural enforcement of cooperative, “moral” behavior, ancient Egypt—as well as nearly every other large-scale society in history—wouldn't have been able to get off the ground. All-knowing big gods are “crazily effective” at enforcing social norms, says Norenzayan's collaborator Edward Slingerland, a…