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Cognitive science of religion

belief that supernatural agents punish wrongdoing, including through local spirits rather than moralizing high gods, tested as preceding political complexity.

In cognitive science of religion, broad supernatural punishment refers to belief that supernatural agents punish wrongdoing, including through local spirits rather than moralizing high gods, tested as preceding political complexity. This meaning comes from Watts (2015) in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.[1]

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  1. Watts, J., Greenhill, S. J., Atkinson, Q. D., Currie, T. E., Bulbulia, J., & Gray, R. D. (2015). Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282(1804), 20142556. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2556

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