Secular society is the first major cultural rival to religiously organized cooperation

Evidence

This chapter discussed how prosocial religions became world religions by outcompeting their cultural rivals. This has mostly been a competition among different religious groups, a process that continues to this day. However, the last three centuries have seen the rise of a new cultural idea and a potential alternative to religiously organized cooperation—secular societies. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 502

Categorization

• XREF: Sets up the secularism question that bears on how faith can survive absent supernatural watchers — directly relevant to the reader’s Big God framework. — connects to: Secular societies now compete against religiously organized cooperation; Secular societies reached large-scale cooperation through religion then discarded it — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 560; Secular institutions achieved large-scale cooperation by usurping religion’s community-building role (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Secular societies now compete against religiously organized cooperation; Secular societies reached large-scale cooperation through religion then discarded it — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 560; Secular institutions achieved large-scale cooperation by usurping religion’s community-building role (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Secular societies now compete against religiously organized cooperation #corroborates (0.95)
• The religious and secular are co-constitutive, not opposed spheres #complicates (0.88) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 501
• Religious belief withers when governments provide the cooperation religion once supplied. #complicates (0.74)