01:830:123 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Veneration Of The Dead, Egalitarianism, Sumerian Language

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:123
• Professor: Professor Lyra Stein

Document Summary

Majority of people worldwide believe that they and all humans are ensouled . Majority of these believers also believe that the souls are released from the bost when it ceases to function. Early religions: a world of multiple gods, spirits and controlling agents. Most scholars who have written on the topic agree that the religion is an essential element of all human societies. No societies have lasted long without it. Afterlife concerts are relatively recent arrivals in the long history of human civilization. Hunting and gathering was their sole means of survival and barely got through the bottleneck of survival having dwindled to perhaps as few as 5,000 individuals at some point in our early history. Lacked size, agility, visual acuity and in born specialized abilities of the prey they sought and the predators that sought them. Critical factor involved in their survival included forming tribes. Strong cases were made that these tribes were egalitarian.