Periodicals>Journal Article: Wade, Lizzie (August 2015), Birth of the moralizing gods, Science, Vol. 349 no. 6251 pp. 918-922 , Retrieved on 2015-11-09Source Material [www.sciencemag.org]
Folksonomies: religion ethics morality Memes
09 NOV 2015
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 historian at UBC Vancouver. “Not only can they see you everywhere you are, but they can actually look inside your mind.” And once big gods and big societies existed, the moralizing...Folksonomies: civilization theology
Folksonomies: civilization theology