The evolution of activist images of god(s) and communality of rites

Results 2004

The field of this study is the Sociology of Religion and the Anthropology of religion. My own background is sociology, and of course, sociological theories and methods are used in this project. Besides a sociological approach, the project also contains anthropological elements. The data that has been used in this project is Murdock’s Standard Sample, which is based on anthropological descriptions. One of the supervisors is a Professor in Anthropology. He can help with the interpretation of the anthropological descriptions.
The aim of this project is to provide evolutionary answers to questions about the relationship of human beings to their god(s) in different stages of technological development, and test these explanations. The theory to be developed and applied may be termed ecological-technological evolutionism, an important macro-theory in contemporary anthropology and sociology. This evolutionary theory forms the basis of this project.