Australia; New Zealand; Pacific
Religious and political authority developed together in the Austronesian language family of countries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, according to NZ and German research. The study looked at 97 Austronesian language societies and found that political and religious authority co-evolved - but they could not say that one drove the other. The authors say this co-evolution of religious and political authority could have been the result of them influencing each other, or could also reflect a third element, such as authority itself, that caused these to be linked.
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