This open access book explores how children draw god around the world. It looks at children’s drawings in a large variety of cultural and religious

The present work is the first study to systematically compare the minds of gods by examining some of the intuitive processes that guide how people reason about them. By examining the Christian god and the spirit-masters of the Tyva Republic, it first confirms that the consensus view of the Christian god's mind is one of omniscience with acute concern for interpersonal social behavior (i.e., mor...

Capital Deepening and Wage Differentials: Germany vs. US Capital deepening may affect the evolution of the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers differently in countries with different labor market institutions. If labor market institutions raise the relative wage of unskilled workers in Germany, firms have incentives to invest relatively more into capital equipment complement...

Partners: Contractors: KVAERNER/LogIT AS (Norway), Port of Gothenburg (Sweden), TRD International S.A. (Greece) Associated partners: Swedish State Railways/Gods (Sweden), Marintek Norwegian Marine Technology Research Institute (Norway) SINTEF Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (Norway), Fraunhofer Institut für Informationsund Datenverarbei...

Biblical texts attribute the same activities and features to biblical gods Yahweh Jesus, as other – mostly older of Ancient Near East gods. Almost all non-biblical have been transfered It means that religious thinkers shared common worldview. Our analysis undermines opinion uniqueness Judaism Christianity. Such view is false, it creation Jewish Christian theologians. One cannot find supprot in ...

Ex-votos in the form of a penis were known since since prehistoric and their manufacture flourished until historical times, mainly in ancient Greek (1,2) and Etrusco-Roman art (3). The great majority of these penises were constructed as healthy examples, probably in order to express the believers’ gratitude towards the healing gods, usually after the restoration of their health, or as pray in o...

Although ecological forces are known to shape the expression of sociality across a broad range of biological taxa, their role in shaping human behavior is currently disputed. Both comparative and experimental evidence indicate that beliefs in moralizing high gods promote cooperation among humans, a behavioral attribute known to correlate with environmental harshness in nonhuman animals. Here we...