‘Big Gods’ Book Club

Big Gods Book Club #6: Concluding Thoughts

(This week, cognitionandculture.net is hosting a "book club" webinar discussing Ara Norenzayan's latest book [1] with its author. This précis introduced the discussion.) In what follows I’ll make

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‘Big Gods’ book club #5: Remarks on the two puzzles

(This week, cognitionandculture.net is hosting a "book club" webinar discussing Ara Norenzayan's latest book [1] with its author. This précis introduced the discussion.) I like Ara’s way of

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‘Big Gods’ book club #4: Alternative explanations?

(This week, cognitionandculture.net is hosting a "book club" webinar discussing Ara Norenzayan's latest book [1] with its author. This précis introduced the discussion.) - atheists flout a “pre

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‘Big Gods’ book club #3 : Testing more specific hypotheses and going beyond correlations in the origins and evolution of religious beliefs

(This week, cognitionandculture.net is hosting a "book club" webinar discussing Ara Norenzayan's latest book [1] with its author. This précis introduced the discussion.) In his insightful précis,

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‘Big Gods’ book club #2: Analytic atheism and the puzzle of apologetic

(This week, cognitionandculture.net is hosting a "book club" webinar discussing Ara Norenzayan's latest book [1] with its author. This précis introduced the discussion.) Norenzayan’s Big Gods

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‘Big Gods’ book club #1 — Skeptical thoughts

(This week, cognitionandculture.net is hosting a "book club" webinar discussing Ara Norenzayan's latest book [1] with its author. This précis introduced the discussion.) Be that as it may, I am

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A précis of ‘Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict’

Two Puzzles The first puzzle is large-scale human cooperation. Up to about 12,000 years ago all human beings lived in relatively small bands of foragers. Today, virtually everyone, more than 99.99

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