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Storms, nations, and other godsthe ongoing evolution of religious thought /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Storms, nations, and other godsby Alexander J. Martín.
Reminder of title:	the ongoing evolution of religious thought /
Author:	Martín, Alexander J.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	x, 133 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Religious thoughtHistory.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-00469-7
ISBN:	9783032004697$q(electronic bk.)

Storms, nations, and other godsthe ongoing evolution of religious thought /
Martín, Alexander J.

Storms, nations, and other godsthe ongoing evolution of religious thought /[electronic resource] :by Alexander J. Martín. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - x, 133 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Copernicus books, sparking curiosity and explaining the world,2731-8990. - Copernicus books, sparking curiosity and explaining the world..

From Our Earliest Beginnings: The Evolution of the Human Mind -- The Natural and the Supernatural: Spirits (and Ghosts and Deities) -- The Group and the Shaman: The Group, The Shaman -- When Everything Changed: The Dawn of Domestication: Rainfall vs Irrigation Agriculture -- The Rise and Dominion of Complex Human Institutions: The Church, Social Institutions -- The Gods of Large States: The God's Families, Moral Gods, Humanity's Authority of Nature -- The Industrial Revolution and the Passing of the Old Gods -- The Modern Nation State: Reality, Perception -- Nation the God: Resolving the Contradiction, A New Kind of Deity -- Other Deities in the Modern Pantheon.

This book explores how two million years of natural selection left us with a strong tendency to bestow purposeful intention to the natural world-forming a robust cognitive basis for religious belief across human cultures. This cognitive legacy forms the foundation of much of how we interpret the world around us today, and understanding the reasons why and how it evolved can shed light on the peculiar relationships we sometimes form with the many complex social institutions of our time, including one of the most dominant and ubiquitous ones, the nation-state. To explore how our tendencies for religious belief interact with the complex social institutions we currently live under, we go on a journey from the start of the Pleistocene era to domestication, from ancient states to colonialism, and from the industrial revolution to the birth of modern nations, all while tracking the various biological, cognitive, and social elements that explain why today we interpret the nation-state (and other modern social institutions) in very similar ways to how we understood deities of the ancient past. Understanding why and how this happens requires reconstructing how evolution shaped our cognition, how complex social organizations arose after domestication, how they act as external forces to ourselves, and how hey grew into distinct and cohesive social entities that our cognition interprets as purposeful players with agency and intent. This book continues the long-held tradition in the social sciences of making this type of interdisciplinary synthesis accessible to the general public, and for that reason, it minimizes discipline-specific jargon and describes experiments and results rather than relying on cited works.

ISBN: 9783032004697$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-032-00469-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1008201
Religious thought
--History.

LC Class. No.: BR148

Dewey Class. No.: 270

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