Alliances and ritual ecstasy: human responses to resource stress

"Where resource stress is most severe, the most important deities tend to be conceptualized in terms of celestial entities" (87).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Chi square	Supported	p<.05	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Presence Of Celestial Deities	Dependent	Spirits And Gods, Ecstatic Religious Practices
Resource Stress	Independent	Food Quest, Annual Cycle, Disasters

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Hayden, Brian	1987	Societies with a high dependence on animals will be more likely to have zoomorphic deities (88).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Hayden, Brian	1987	In areas where agricultural or more complex societies have had a major impact on hunter/gatherer economies, high gods will be more important (88).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Skoggard, Ian	2020	High levels of resource stress will be positively associated with belief in minor spirits involved with weather.	Partially supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Skoggard, Ian	2020	High levels of resource stress will be positively associated with belief in high gods involved with weather.	Mostly Supported (3 of 4 models)	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Skoggard, Ian	2020	High levels of resource stress will be positively associated with belief in superior gods involved with weather.	Mostly not supported (1 of 4 models)	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author