Attachment and Cooperation in Religious Groups: A Comment

Anderson comments that Weingarten and Chishoim (2009) are to be congratulated on a fascinating and stimulating article. However, it suffers from a lack of any real definition of "religion." This might not matter, except for three things. First, most (if not all) of the evolution-of-religion literature that Weingarten and Chishoim are addressing shares this lack of definition. Second, "religion" is a Western concept, and most societies worldwide (especially the small-scale, traditional societies) do not have an equivalent word or concept.