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Big Gods and other watcher mechanisms in the formation of large groups
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Taves, A
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Center and Library of Islamic Studies in European Languages
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Qom
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Qom
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32910706
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025
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LA39r3397f
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Big Gods and other watcher mechanisms in the formation of large groups
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Taves, A
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© 2014, Taylor & Francis. Norenzayan's effort to integrate genetic and cultural evolution is a welcome advance over previous efforts, as is the attention he devotes to different levels of analysis from cognitive mechanisms to large group interactions. The scope of Norenzayan's argument, however, is bound to leave many scholars of religion feeling uneasy. The content of his model, which is most likely over specified, will need further testing in light of historical evidence. Comparison of Big Gods with Robert Bellah's Religion in Human Evolution (2011) highlights some of the choices Norenzayan made in designing his model and suggests ways it could be elaborated. Historians of religion who would like to help test his model could keep an eye out for 'watcher mechanisms' that might play more of a role than 'moralizing Big Gods' in some traditions and, thus, potentially offer an alternative route to large, anonymous, yet stable groups.
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2014
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UC Santa Barbara
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