Before and After the Interregnum

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yazar:

Matt J. Rossano

Yayın yılı:

2010

Yayıncı:

Oxford University Press

Chapter 6 examines the evolutionary origins of religion prior to the African Interregnum period and looks at what happen to religion after this period. Prior to the Interregnum, it is argued that the social lives of our primate and hominin ancestors, especially their social rituals and social emotions, laid the groundwork for the eventual emergence of the “supernaturalized” religion that emerged during the Interregnum. A key transitional moment came about 500,000 ybp when our ancestors evolved the capacity to engage in “group mimesis”—that is, they were able to sing, chant, dance, and march together in rhythm. These group-based rituals had powerful consciousness-altering and social bonding effects. After the interregnum, increased social stratification encouraged the emergence of ancestor worship and with it religious narratives and mythologies. As society and religion became increasingly complex and stratified the basic framework for classic paganism began to take form.

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