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The Evolution of Morality and Religion
Author | : Donald M. Broom |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2003-12-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0521529247 |
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The Evolution of Religion and Morality
Author | : Martin Lang,Benjamin Grant Purzycki,Joseph Henrich,Ara Norenzayan |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2023-12-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781003827160 |
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This volume draws on a unique dataset to answer pressing questions about human religiosity. Building upon the first volume in this series, it presents results from the second phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) project. The second volume investigates key questions in the evolutionary and cognitive sciences of religion and highlights cultural variability and context specificity of diverse religious systems. Chapters draw on a dataset comprising 2,228 participants from 15 ethnographically diverse societies that stretch from Africa and India through Oceania to South America, and include hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, horticulturalists, subsistence farmers and wage laborers. Four chapters using the full dataset answer the following questions: What are the general predictors of commitment to supernatural agents? Is there a gender gap in religiosity? Does belief in punitive gods facilitates cooperation? Are supernatural agents implicitly associated with moral concerns? Chapters from individual field sites further explore the distinction between moralizing and local gods, the potentially disruptive role of belief in local gods on cooperation with anonymous co-religionists, and the relationship between belief in moralizing gods, cooperation, and differential access to material resources. Above these empirical studies, the book also includes an informed discussion with specialists on the challenges of running such a large cross-cultural project and gives concrete recommendations for future projects. The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume II will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of religious studies, human evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, the cultural evolution of religion and the sociology of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion, Brain & Behavior.
The Evolution of Religion and Morality
Author | : Benjamin Grant Purzycki,Joseph Henrich,Ara Norenzayan |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2023-12-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781003827221 |
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This volume assesses the role of religion in cooperation and prosocial behaviour using ethnographic and experimental methods across eight different field sites. The first of two volumes presents results from the first phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) Project. Using a unique combination of both experimental and ethnographic methods, the ERM project addresses pressing questions from the burgeoning cultural evolutionary sciences of religion: What is the relationship between religious beliefs and cooperation? When people are committed to punitive, knowledgeable, and morally concerned gods, are they more inclined to behave prosocially towards others? How far does this prosociality extend? Do important individual and contextual factors mediate this relationship? In addition to an omnibus report, this book offers seven site-specific reports that contextualize experimental and ethnographic data collected around the world. Collecting data from communities as diverse as the Hadza of Tanzania, villagers from two communities on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, residents of Marajó, Brazil, Fijians from Yasawa and Lovu, Tyvans from southern Siberia, and Mauritians, this ground-breaking work sets a new standard in the scientific study of religion. The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume I will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of religious studies, human evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, the cultural evolution of religion and the sociology of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion, Brain & Behavior.
Challenges to Moral and Religious Belief
Author | : Michael Bergmann,Patrick Kain |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2014-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780199669776 |
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Fourteen original essays by philosophers, theologians, and social scientists explore the challenges to moral and religious belief posed by disagreement and evolution. The collection represents both sceptical and non-skeptical positions about morality and religion, cultivates new insights, and moves the discussion forward in illuminating ways.
The Evolution of Morality
Author | : Todd K. Shackelford,Ranald D. Hansen |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2015-08-10 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9783319196718 |
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This interdisciplinary collection presents novel theories, includes provocative re-workings of longstanding arguments, and offers a healthy cross-pollination of ideas to the morality literature. Structures, functions, and content of morality are reconsidered as cultural, religious, and political components are added to the standard biological/environmental mix. Innovative concepts such as the Periodic Table of Ethics and evidence for morality in non-human species illuminate areas for further discussion and research. And some of the book’s contributors question premises we hold dear, such as morality as a product of reason, the existence of moral truths, and the motto “life is good.” Highlights of the coverage: The tripartite theory of Machiavellian morality: judgment, influence, and conscience as distinct moral adaptations. Prosocial morality from a biological, cultural, and developmental perspective. The containment problem and the evolutionary debunking of morality. A comparative perspective on the evolution of moral behavior. A moral guide to depravity: religiously-motivated violence and sexual selection. Game theory and the strategic logic of moral intuitions. The Evolution of Morality makes a stimulating supplementary text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in the evolutionary sciences, particularly in psychology, biology, anthropology, sociology, political science, religious studies, and philosophy
Evolution and Ethics
Author | : Philip Clayton,Jeffrey Schloss |
Publsiher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2004-08-04 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0802826954 |
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Certain to engage scholars, students, and general readers alike, Evolution and Ethics offers a balanced, levelheaded, constructive approach to an often divisive debate.
Darwinism as Religion
Author | : Michael Ruse |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780190241025 |
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'Darwinism as Religion' argues that the theory of evolution given by Charles Darwin in the 19th-century has always functioned as much as a secular form of religion as anything purely scientific. Through the words of novelists and poets, Michael Ruse argues that Darwin took us from the secure world of Christian faith into a darker, less friendly world of chance and lack of meaning.
The Evolution of Morality and Religion
Author | : Donald M. Broom |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Ethics, Evolutionary |
ISBN | : 0511070411 |
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Biologist Donald Broom argues that morality and the central components of religion are of great value, and presents two central ideas: that morality has a biological foundation and has evolved as a consequence of natural selection, and secondly, that religions are essentially structures underpinning morality.