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Cultural evolution and prosociality: widening the hypothesis space [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Norenzayan and colleagues suggest that Big Gods can be replaced by Big Governments. We examine forms of social and self-monitoring and ritual practice that emerged in Classical China, heterarchical societies like those that emerged in pre-Columbian ...
Huebner, Bryce, Sarkissian, Hagop
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Institutional Decline and Resilient Belief: Understanding Secularization in Latin America

open access: yesSocius
A large body of literature analyzes trends of religious decline across Western Europe and North America. Often rooted in secularization theory—the idea that modernization reduces religious beliefs and practice—this research lacks attention to global ...
Matthew Blanton
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Not the opium of the people : income and secularization in a panel of Prussian counties [PDF]

open access: yes
The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of income and Protestant church attendance for six waves of up to 175 Prussian counties spanning 1886-1911.
Becker, Sascha O., Woessmann, Ludger
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Secularization as a Social-Philosophical Problem

open access: yesБогословські роздуми: Східноєвропейський журнал богословʼя, 2006
Secularization is of concern not only to theologians; the crisis has captured the interest of social and political philosophers. If Western theologians and advocates of liberal democracy remain optimistic and are attempting to rethink Christian ...
Michael CHERENKOV
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