Storms, Nations, and Other Gods: The Ongoing Evolution of Religious Thought
Author:   Alexander J. Martín
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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Pages:   133
Publication Date:   03 January 2026
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Storms, Nations, and Other Gods: The Ongoing Evolution of Religious Thought


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Author:   Alexander J. Martín
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:  

9783032004680


ISBN 10:   3032004683
Pages:   133
Publication Date:   03 January 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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From Our Earliest Beginnings: The Evolution of the Human Mind.- The Natural and the Supernatural: Spirits (and Ghosts and Deities).- The Group and the Shaman: The Group, The Shaman.- When Everything Changed: The Dawn of Domestication: Rainfall vs Irrigation Agriculture.- The Rise and Dominion of Complex Human Institutions: The Church, Social Institutions.- The Gods of Large States: The God’s Families, Moral Gods, Humanity’s Authority of Nature.- The Industrial Revolution and the Passing of the Old Gods.- The Modern Nation State: Reality, Perception.- Nation the God: Resolving the Contradiction, A New Kind of Deity.- Other Deities in the Modern Pantheon.

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Alexander J. Martín is an anthropologist and the Associate Director of the Center for Comparative Archaeology at the University of Pittsburgh, where he manages the Comparative Archaeology Database—a global initiative to collect and digitize archaeological data for the empirical study of prehistoric societies. His research explores how human communities structured their political, economic, and religious institutions as they expanded in size and complexity. By comparing societies across regions and time periods, Martín investigates the cultural foundations that enabled large-scale cooperation, with particular focus on the role of religion—seeking to understand which aspects of religious behavior are universal and which are shaped by the specific needs of individual societies.

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