initial theism | initial social structure | Technological Revolution | enlarged social structure | internal conflict in enlarged social structure | pacifying theism order | pacifying theism family |
irreligious pre-theism | egalitarian band | Upper Paleolithic Revolution | linked egalitarian bands | small social group size instinct from pre-theism | egalitarian band theism | animism, afterlife, shamanism |
egalitarian band theism | linked egalitarian bands | Agricultural-Bronze Revolution | decentralized union of hierarchical states | egalitarianism from egalitarian band theism | pluralistic state theism | natural polytheism, personal polytheism |
pluralistic state theism | decentralized union of hierarchical states | Iron Revolution | mega centralized empire | conflicting deities from pluralistic state theism | top-down imperial theism | personal monotheism, impersonal rational theism, empirical theism |
top-down imperial theism | mega centralized empire | Industrious Revolution | global human community | conflicting theisms from top-down imperial theism | bottom-up community theism | community monotheism, community rational theism, community empirical theism |