This volume assesses the role of religion in cooperation and prosocial behaviour using ethnographic and experimental methods across eight different field sites. The first of two volumes presents results from the first phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) Project. Using a unique combination of both experimental and ethnographic methods, the ERM project addresses pressing questions from the burgeoning cultural evolutionary sciences of religion: * What is the relationship between religious beliefs and cooperation? * When people are committed to punitive, knowledgeable, and morally concerned gods, are they more inclined to behave prosocially towards others? * How far does this prosociality extend? * Do important individual and contextual factors mediate this relationship?In addition to an omnibus report, this book offers seven site-specific reports that contextualize experimental and ethnographic data collected around the world. Collecting data from communities as diverse
