Buddhism, Identity, and Class: Fairness and Favoritism in the Tyva Republic
Religion, Brain & Behavior ISSN: 2153-599X (Print) 2153-5981 (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rrbb20 Buddhism, identity, and class: fairness and favoritism in the Tyva Republic Benjamin Grant Purzycki & Valeria Kulundary To cite this article: Benjamin Grant Purzycki & Valeria Kulundary (2018) Buddhism, identity, and class: fairness and favoritism in the Tyva Republic, Religion, Brain & Behavior, 8:2, 205-226, DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2016.1267031 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2016.1267031 View supplementary material Published online: 23 Mar 2017. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 160 View related articles View Crossmark data Citing articles: 1 View citing articles Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rrbb20 RELIGION, BRAIN & BEHAVIOR, 2018 VOL. 8, NO. 2, 205–226 https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2016.1267031 Buddhism, identity, and class: fairness and favoritism in the Tyva Republic Benjamin Grant Purzyckia and Valeria Kulundaryb aDepartment of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany; bKyzyl Presidential Cadet School, Kyzyl, Republic of Tyva, Russia ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY Current research suggests that commitment to moralistic, omniscient, and Received 30 June 2015 punitive gods may contribute to the evolution of cooperation. As they may Accepted 20 April 2016 curb antisocial behaviors that incur costly social repercussions, KEYWORDS supernatural punishment may help stabilize reciprocal relationships Buddhism; cooperation; among peers. One recent elaboration of this hypothesis posits that economic games; psychology commitment to such gods may boost prosociality to the point that it of religion; supernatural expands cooperation beyond one’s family and local community.
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