What Explains the Emergence of Moralizing Religions?
An ambitious article: "Increased Affluence Explains the Emergence of Ascetic Wisdoms and Moralizing Religions", by Nicolas Baumard, Alexandre Hyafil, Ian Morris, and Pascal Boyer in Current Biology, 25, 1 (2015).
Summary
Background: Between roughly 500 BCE and 300 BCE, three distinct regions, the ...