The birth of the gods revisited: a partial replication of guy swanson's (1960) cross-cultural study of religion

The presence of sovereign kinship organization will be associated with a belief in active ancestral spirits (94).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Chi square	Not Supported	Not Significant	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Belief In Active Ancestral Spirits	Independent	Eschatology, Spirits And Gods
Sovereign Kinship Organization	Dependent	Kin Groups

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Swanson, Guy E.	1960	"There is a positive and significant relationship between the presence in a society of sovereign kinship groups other than the nuclear family and a belief that ancestral spirits are active in human affairs" (108)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Swanson, Guy E.	1960	"Cumulative scores which combine the number of sovereign groups in a society with the presence of unlegitimezed contacts, the size of the units of settlement, and the presence of sovereign kinship groups are related . . . to indicators of a belief in the immanence of the soul" (135-136)	Supported	5	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Peoples, Hervey C.	2016	Evolution of high gods and active high gods will be positively associated with the evolution of other ancestral hunter-gatherer religious characteristics (274).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Somersan, Semra	1984	Matrilineal societies will be more likely to believe in ancestral spirits (156).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Rudmin, Floyd Webster	1992	Certain characteristics of societies will be significantly correlated in the same direction with both Swanson's (1966) and Murdock's (1967) measures of private property ownership.	Support for 10 of the 32 variables - see note for directions	13	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author