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The origins of religion, with Robin Dunbar

Instant Genius

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Theology and Theology in the Churches

Most of our evolutionary history wasn't a theologyw have the kind of semanic type, animus type religions that you still see in hunter gatherers. They're immersive in the sense that everybody is involved and very often they're based round dancing and singing. So their moral codes are purely social. Don't ask questions, just do it. Whereas when you have the doctrinal religions coming in, they seem to sort of appear all around about eight thousand years ago,. an the beginning of the neolithic. Then you have a kind of theological superstructure imposed on this sort of ancient trance based animist type a religions - which essentially o provideh justification for it in many ways.

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