Religion, Brain & Behavior Nº 13/2

Religion, Brain & Behavior

Nº 13/2 - 2023

Editorial

   

Introducing a special issue on the role of moralizing gods in the evolution of socio-political complexity pp. 121-123

Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter François, Jennifer Larson 

& Alan Covey

  

Retake 

  

Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data:

 a review and “retake” pp. 124-166

Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter François, Patrick E. Savage, Daniel Hoyer, Kevin C. Feeney, Enrico Cioni, Rosalind Purcell, Jennifer Larson, 

John Baines, Barend ter Haar, Alan Covey & Peter Turchin

Target Article 

  

Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: a test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank pp. 167-194

Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse, Jennifer Larson, Enrico Cioni, 

Jenny Reddish, Daniel Hoyer, Patrick E. Savage, R. Alan Covey, 

John Baines, Mark Altaweel, Eugene Anderson, Peter Bol, Eva Brandl, 

David M. Carballo, Gary Feinman, Andrey Korotayev, Nikolay Kradin,

 Jill D. Levine, Selin E. Nugent, Andrea Squitieri, Vesna Wallace 

& Pieter François

Commentaries

   

From supernatural punishment to big gods to puritanical religions: clarifying explanatory targets in the rise of moralizing religions  

pp. 195-199

Léo Fitouchi, Jean-Baptiste André & Nicolas Baumard

Data-testing competing hypotheses for beginners: how can we 

ordinary mortals wade through the mathematics of religion?  

pp. 199-202

Armin W. Geertz

Affluence, agricultural productivity, and the rise of 

moralizing religion in the ancient Mediterranean  pp. 202-206

Vojtěch Kaše & Tomáš Glomb

Missing level of analysis? pp. 206-207

E. Thomas Lawson

Coding, causality, and statistical craft: the emergence and 

evolutionary drivers of moralistic supernatural punishment 

remain unresolved  pp. 207-214

Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Theiss Bendixen 

& Aaron D. Lightner

War, “the Father of All”—including moralizing religions?

pp. 214-216

Jens Schlieter & Andrea Rota

The emergence of MSP vs. the spread of transcendentalist 

religion   pp. 216-218

Alan Strathern

Reply

Big Gods and big science: further reflections on theory, 

data, and analysis  pp. 218-231

Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse, Jennifer Larson, Enrico Cioni, 

Jenny Reddish, Daniel Hoyer, Patrick E. Savage, R. Alan Covey, 

John Baines, Mark Altaweel, Eugene Anderson, Peter Bol, Eva Brandl, 

David M. Carballo, Gary Feinman, Andrey Korotayev, Nikolay Kradin, 

Jill D. Levine, Selin E. Nugent, Andrea Squitieri, Vesna Wallace 

& Pieter François

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