Implicit theories	Neolithic and Peasant Cultures
Community	Those people are part of my moral community with whom I share common access to land, language and symbols of belief, e.g. the book.
System	The wider natural world is made up of many (competing) moral communities, mostly engaged in agriculture as well. – all subject hierarchically to vicissitudes of nature (floods, drought, epidemics, epizoodics etc.) perceived as “acts of God” -- “ours” or “theirs”
Authority	Disputes settled at appropriate level of hierarchy within land-based state/religious system. Ultimately God or gods have authority and express themselves through natural processes. Priestly class vs. King
Change	No change but cyclical change. Putatively changeless and eternal. Norm is to resist change. Ritual effort is to rehearse system and cycle in hierarchically arranged repetitive cycles – “There is nothing new under the sun” Innovation is not rewarded. Change thought subsersive.
Agency	God(s) is(are) agents of change – sometimes through privileged revelations to faithful followers. Prophets and “chosen people.”
Time	Normal experience of time is as a series of cycles within a larger structure of “interval” -- a time between a “creation” moment and a “redemption” sometime in the future..