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Supernatural, social, and self-monitoring in the scaling up of Chinese Civilization
Religion, Brain and Behavior 5 (4):323-327 (2015)
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An invited commentary on Ara Norenzayan's Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict, focusing on whether early China constitutes an exception to his general theory.Author's Profile
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The cultural evolution of prosocial religions.Ara Norenzayan, Azim F. Shariff, Will M. Gervais, Aiyana K. Willard, Rita A. McNamara, Edward Slingerland & Joseph Henrich - 2016 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39:e1.
Recent trends in the cognitive science of religion: Neuroscience, religious experience, and the confluence of cognitive and evolutionary research.Robert N. McCauley - 2020 - Zygon 55 (1):97-124.
Parochial prosocial religions: Historical and contemporary evidence for a cultural evolutionary process.Ara Norenzayan, Azim F. Shariff, Will M. Gervais, Aiyana K. Willard, Rita A. McNamara, Edward Slingerland & Joseph Henrich - 2016 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39.
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Big Gods, historical explanation, and the value of integrating the history of religion into the broader academy.Edward Slingerland - 2015 - Religion 45 (4):585-602.
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