• DOI:10.1177/106939710003400105
Corpus ID: 44050390

Religion and Intragroup Cooperation: Preliminary Results of a Comparative Analysis of Utopian Communities

@article{Sosis2000ReligionAI,
  title={Religion and Intragroup Cooperation: Preliminary Results of a Comparative Analysis of Utopian Communities},
  author={R. Sosis},
  journal={Cross-Cultural Research},
  year={2000},
  volume={34},
  pages={70 - 87}
}

R. Sosis

Published 2000

Sociology

Cross-Cultural Research

Several authors have argued that religious beliefs are a way of communicating commitment and loyalty to other group members. The advantage of commitment signals is that they can promote intragroup cooperation by overcoming the free-rider problems that plague most cooperative pursuits. In this article, the author tests this idea using a database on 19th century utopian communes. The economic success and survival of utopian communes is dependent upon solving the collective-action problem of… CONTINUE READING

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