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Cultural inheritance or cultural diffusion of religious violence? A quantitative case study of the Radical Reformation

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Matthews, LJ; Edmonds, J; Wildman, WJ; Nunn, CL
Published in: Religion, Brain and Behavior
July 2, 2013

Religion throughout the historical record is consistently associated with large-scale cooperative activities. These cooperative activities sometimes involve coordinated acts of violence, particularly against religious out-groups. Using phylogenetic and social network analyses, we investigated whether religious violence is inherited from parent congregations or is acquired from contempora-neous purveyors of violent ideologies. We examined these questions among sixteenth-century Anabaptists, who constitute a prominent historical system with both violent and pacifist congregations. We found that ideology advocating violence was typically inherited from parent congregations, while the majority of other theological traits spread among contemporaneous groups. Violent ideology may be learned independently from most other characteristics of an overall belief system, and/or it may be determined more by congregationally inherited economic and political factors than by theology. © 2013 Taylor & Francis.

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Religion, Brain and Behavior

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2153-5981

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2153-599X

Publication Date

July 2, 2013

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3

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1

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3 / 15

Related Subject Headings

  • 5205 Social and personality psychology
  • 5004 Religious studies
 

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Matthews, L. J., Edmonds, J., Wildman, W. J., & Nunn, C. L. (2013). Cultural inheritance or cultural diffusion of religious violence? A quantitative case study of the Radical Reformation. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 3(1), 3–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2012.707388
Matthews, L. J., J. Edmonds, W. J. Wildman, and C. L. Nunn. “Cultural inheritance or cultural diffusion of religious violence? A quantitative case study of the Radical Reformation.” Religion, Brain and Behavior 3, no. 1 (July 2, 2013): 3–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2012.707388.
Matthews LJ, Edmonds J, Wildman WJ, Nunn CL. Cultural inheritance or cultural diffusion of religious violence? A quantitative case study of the Radical Reformation. Religion, Brain and Behavior. 2013 Jul 2;3(1):3–15.
Matthews, L. J., et al. “Cultural inheritance or cultural diffusion of religious violence? A quantitative case study of the Radical Reformation.” Religion, Brain and Behavior, vol. 3, no. 1, July 2013, pp. 3–15. Scopus, doi:10.1080/2153599X.2012.707388.
Matthews LJ, Edmonds J, Wildman WJ, Nunn CL. Cultural inheritance or cultural diffusion of religious violence? A quantitative case study of the Radical Reformation. Religion, Brain and Behavior. 2013 Jul 2;3(1):3–15.

Published In

Religion, Brain and Behavior

DOI

EISSN

2153-5981

ISSN

2153-599X

Publication Date

July 2, 2013

Volume

3

Issue

1

Start / End Page

3 / 15

Related Subject Headings

  • 5205 Social and personality psychology
  • 5004 Religious studies