Side N
Not a Ladder, a Palimpsest
Which sources back which section of this article, and what its evidence base looks like.
Which sources back which section
| Section | Sources behind it |
|---|---|
| What Happened | Tylor, Primitive Culture (1871); Wikipedia on the Bacchanalia; Wikipedia on the senatorial decree (CIL I² 581); Wikipedia on Kuntillet ʿAjrud; Wikipedia on shinbutsu bunri; Wikipedia on Sanskritisation; Wikipedia on Ibn Taymiyya; Wikipedia on Robert Redfield; Wikipedia on Chinese folk religion; the 2019 Nature paper itself; its 2021 Retraction Note; the 2023 “Retake” in Religion, Brain & Behavior; its 2023 companion paper on causal mechanism; Duara, Journal of Asian Studies (1988); the publisher’s page for Peter Brown’s The Cult of the Saints; the publisher’s page for Josephson’s The Invention of Religion in Japan |
| Timeline | Tylor, Primitive Culture (1871); Wikipedia on the Bacchanalia; Wikipedia on the senatorial decree (CIL I² 581); Wikipedia on Kuntillet ʿAjrud; Wikipedia on shinbutsu bunri; Wikipedia on Sanskritisation; Wikipedia on Ibn Taymiyya; Wikipedia on Robert Redfield; Wikipedia on the Axial Age; Wikipedia on Chinese folk religion; the 2019 Nature paper itself; its 2021 Retraction Note; the 2023 “Retake” in Religion, Brain & Behavior; its 2023 companion paper on causal mechanism; Duara, Journal of Asian Studies (1988); the publisher’s page for Peter Brown’s The Cult of the Saints; the publisher’s page for Josephson’s The Invention of Religion in Japan |
| The Argument | Wikipedia on the Axial Age; the 2019 Nature paper itself; its 2021 Retraction Note; the 2023 “Retake” in Religion, Brain & Behavior; its 2023 companion paper on causal mechanism; Duara, Journal of Asian Studies (1988) |
| What Others Add | Wikipedia on the Bacchanalia; Wikipedia on the senatorial decree (CIL I² 581); Wikipedia on Kuntillet ʿAjrud; Wikipedia on shinbutsu bunri; Wikipedia on the Eleusinian Mysteries; Wikipedia on Ibn Taymiyya; Wikipedia on Robert Redfield; Wikipedia on Chinese folk religion; Duara, Journal of Asian Studies (1988); the publisher’s page for Peter Brown’s The Cult of the Saints; Wikipedia on the Lares |
| Conclusion | Wikipedia on the Bacchanalia; Wikipedia on the senatorial decree (CIL I² 581); Wikipedia on Kuntillet ʿAjrud; Wikipedia on shinbutsu bunri; Wikipedia on Ibn Taymiyya; Wikipedia on the Axial Age; the 2019 Nature paper itself; its 2021 Retraction Note; the 2023 “Retake” in Religion, Brain & Behavior; its 2023 companion paper on causal mechanism; Duara, Journal of Asian Studies (1988) |
What the evidence base looks like
- 19Sources behind this article
- 5Sections, every one of them sourced
- 17Read in full
- 2Read at the abstract only
| What the source is | How many | How they were read |
|---|---|---|
| Encyclopaedic reference articles (Wikipedia) | 11 | All eleven read in full, at their own page |
| The primary texts and papers under discussion | 6 | Four read in full; two read at the abstract only, because the full text sits behind a subscription paywall |
| Publisher description pages for two books discussed but not read in full | 2 | Both read in full, at the publisher’s own page; the books themselves were not read |
Reliable
Reliable, but with an interestWorth believing and reliableWeak on both, and used with careHonest, but thin
Worth believing