Religion and Intragroup Cooperation
Preliminary Results of a Comparative Analysis of Utopian Communities
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 7738568 |
|---|---|
| Autores | R Sosis (0000-0002-6838-881X, University of Connecticut) |
| Ano | 2000 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 70-87 |
| Data de publicação | 2000-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Cross-Cultural Research (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1069-3971 • E-ISSN: 1552-3578 |
| Editora | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/106939710003400105 |
| OpenAlex | W2159118572 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 89 |
| Referências citadas | 25 |
Several authors have argued that religious beliefs are a way of communicating commitment and loyalty to other group members. The advantage of commitment signals is that they can promote intragroup cooperation by overcoming the free-rider problems that plague most cooperative pursuits. In this article, the author tests this idea using a database on 19th century utopian communes. The economic success and survival of utopian communes is dependent upon solving the collective-action problem of cooperative labor. If religious beliefs foster commitment and loyalty among individuals who share those beliefs, communes formed out of religious conviction should survive longer than communes motivated by secular ideologies such as socialism. Preliminary results from survivorship analysis support this hypothesis; religious communes are more likely than secular communes to survive at every stage of their life course. These results are discussed with reference to a modern communal movement, the Israeli kibbutz
Collective action · Communism · Conviction · Ideology · Loyalty · Plague (disease · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Sociology · Survivorship curve · Demography · History · Law · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology
Communication and collective action
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Male genital mutilation
Optimising human community sizes
The evolution of misbelief
Religious Belief, Evolution of
The evolution of religion
Utopianism
Natural Security
Why ritualized behavior? Precaution Systems and action parsing in developmental, pathological and cultural rituals
Scars for war
The cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion
Principles of Religious Prosociality
Parasite-stress promotes in-group assortative sociality
Religion and Mental Health Among Older Adults
The Evolutionary Biology of Religious Behavior
Is Religion Special
When superstition outperforms truth
Religious signaling and prosociality
Bending and bonding
On the role of analytic thinking in religious belief change
The acheulean handaxe
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How Does Religious Belief Affect Happiness of Older Adults
“We Never Stop Singing”
Paradise Lost
Recruitment to Elective Cults
Rituals Kneaded with Societies, Societies Kneaded with Rituals
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Signalling theory and the evolution of religious cooperation
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The Moral Faculty
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Threats of Hellfire and Jumping for Heavenly Joy
Pragmatic Utopianism
Ideology and social cognition
Social cues and ideology
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Is Palaeolithic cave art consistent with costly signalling theory? Lascaux as a test case
On Ritual and Cooperation
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Signaling theories of religion
Big Gods
Hominin brain evolution and human culture
Big Gods and the greater good
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Ritual wellbeing
Costly signaling, ritual and cooperation
Evolution and Cognition
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Cultural Evolution of Religion, Spirituality and Ritual
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Revisiting sacrifice and stigma
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Ritual, emotion, and sacred symbols
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The Faith of Sacrifice
Why aren't we all hutterites
God's punishment and public goods
The Evolution of Symbolic Thought
Cooperation and Commune Longevity
Induced Altruism in Religious, Military, and Terrorist Organizations
Religious Scepticism and its Social Context
Whence Collective Rituals? A Cultural Selection Model of Ritualized Behavior
Social Dilemmas
Passions within Reason
Judaism and Modernization on the Religious Kibbutz
The Handicap Principle
The Logic of Collective Action
Commitment and Community
The Biology of Moral Systems
Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
Punishment allows the evolution of cooperation (or anything else) in sizable groups
Two Hundred Years of American Communes
Communes, Sociology and Society
The religious Kibbutz movement and its credo, 1935–48
Sacrifice and Stigma
America's Communal Utopias
Cognitive Archaeology, Evolutionary Psychology and Cultural Transmission, with Particular Reference to Religious Ideas
Judaism and Modernization on the Religious Kibbutz
Commitment and Social Organization
Communes, Sociology, and Society
The Orthodox Kibbutzim and Economic Success
Why Strict Churches Are Strong
Religion and Communal Life in an Evolutionary-Functional Perspective
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