Costly rites mobilize male solidarity and spread culturally through intergroup competition.
Evidence
The entire argument in this book can be summarized in eight interrelated principles. … 2. Religion is more in the situation than in the person. … 5. Religious actions speak louder than words. … 8. Religious groups cooperate in order to compete. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 19 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Intergroup warfare, not internal conflict or mating competition, drives costly male rites.; Painful shared rituals can unite people across ethnic lines; Prosocial religious groups outcompeted rivals through internal cooperation. (+7 more)
Related
- Intergroup warfare, not internal conflict or mating competition, drives costly male rites. (similarity 0.88)
- Warfare between groups predicts costly male rites, internal conflict and mating do not (similarity 0.86)
- Costly male rites spread via cultural group selection when they improve fighting success (similarity 0.85)
- Religious behavior depends on situational context, observable action, and intergroup competition (similarity 0.85)
- Moralizing gods and costly rituals coevolved to boost in-group cooperation and out-compete rivals. (similarity 0.83)
- Religion drives intergroup conflict through three mutable pathways, not belief alone (similarity 0.82)
- Painful shared rituals can unite people across ethnic lines (similarity 0.80)
- Movements succeed by exploiting kin-selection psychology through bonding rituals. (similarity 0.79)
- Religious participation, not belief, drives support for intergroup conflict (similarity 0.79)
- Prosocial religions outcompeted rivals through group solidarity advantages in warfare (similarity 0.79)
- Big Gods and costly rituals coevolved to enhance cooperation and outcompete rivals (similarity 0.78)
- Prosocial religious groups outcompeted rivals through internal cooperation. (similarity 0.78)
- Resource conflict, large groups, and watchful gods co-occur across world societies. (similarity 0.78)
- Intergroup competition triggers male generosity but leaves female giving unchanged (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Big Gods and costly rituals coevolved to enhance cooperation and outcompete rivals
#corroborates(0.90) - Prosocial religious groups outcompeted rivals through internal cooperation.
#expands(0.85) - Religious behavior depends on situational context, observable action, and intergroup competition
#corroborates(0.85) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 19 - Painful shared rituals can unite people across ethnic lines
#expands(0.80) - Exposure to intergroup conflict determines a population’s mix of self-interest and self-sacrifice.
#expands(0.80) - Male bonding is how patriarchy confers and preserves male power.
#expands(0.80) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 282 - The matriarchy myth built white-male and Black-male solidarity on shared sexism
#exemplifies(0.75) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 231 - Conflict destructive at one level can integrate the larger group
#expands(0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 280 - Shared sexism bonded militant black men and white men across racial divides
#exemplifies(0.75) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 277