Big Gods, historical explanation, and the value of integrating the history of religion into the broader academy
Edward Slingerland
This article discusses critiques raised by historians of religion concerning Ara Norenzayan's Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), offering some defense position, but also discussing in detail the more substantive challenges. It concludes with reflections on current position history within Academy, an argument for why large-scale explanatory projects interdisciplinary collaboration should be part future our field.
Religion