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Comparative Anthropological History of World Religions, Trans-Ethnic Mystical Invariants, and Predictive Game-Theoretic Historiography

Authors: Andre White & NorthStar Collaborative Research Faculty • Date: 2026-10-21 • License: CC-BY-4.0 • Report ID: NSP-2026-08_COMPARATIVE_RELIGION_AND_HUMANITIES_SERIES
Epistemic Status: VERIFIED_HISTORICAL_AND_INFERRED_COMPARATIVE_MODELS
Governance & Peer-Review Status: Non-clinical humanities, anthropology, and game theory — cleared for open-access working paper deposit.
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Structured Abstract

This five-part humanities working-paper series examines the evolutionary anthropology of human ritual and religious systems from Upper Paleolithic shamanic complexes and Neolithic agricultural pantheons through the Axial Age transformations (Vedic/Upanishadic, Buddhist, Daoist, Confucian, Zoroastrian, Abrahamic, and Indigenous traditions), paired with formal game-theoretic modeling of institutional cooperation, elite overproduction, and strategic equilibrium transitions in historical civilizations.

Keywords: anthropology of religion, comparative mythology, Axial Age, game theory, predictive historiography, contemplative traditions

Target Open-Science Venues & Open Referee Questions

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  1. Evaluate comparative structural parallels across Axial Age ethical and contemplative frameworks.
  2. Assess the game-theoretic payoff matrices and institutional coordination models in the Predictive History dossier.

BibTeX Citation Record

@book{bellah2011religion,
  author    = {Bellah, Robert N.},
  title     = {Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age},
  year      = {2011},
  publisher = {Harvard University Press},
  address   = {Cambridge, MA}
}
@book{eliade1978history,
  author    = {Eliade, Mircea},
  title     = {A History of Religious Ideas (Volumes 1--3)},
  year      = {1978},
  publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
  address   = {Chicago, IL}
}