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Sociological models of charismatic authority without divinity asks what human beings keep doing across cultures, and why that repetition might matter. Put more simply, the claim being weighed is that charismatic authority, group dynamics, and ritual practices can produce deep loyalty and elevated teacher-veneration without requiring ontological divinity. Read it as a human-pattern clue: illuminating, suggestive, and easy to misuse if it is turned into either proof of religion or proof that religion is merely projection. In the scoring table, its main conversation partners are Naturalism (H-NATURALISM), Secular Humanism (H-SECULAR-HUMANISM), Jesus’ Identity (Pre-Res) (H-CHRIST-IDENTITY); that is a map of relevance, not a declaration that the item settles those hypotheses by itself.
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The basic idea is simple: Charismatic authority, group dynamics, and ritual practices can produce deep loyalty and elevated teacher-veneration without requiring ontological divinity. That is the thing to notice before the technical labels and numbers arrive.
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Anthropology looks at human beings with the lights on: our rituals, fears, songs, sacrifices, longings, authorities, and moral habits. It can show why religion is so human without deciding too quickly whether religion is merely human.
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In the scoring table, this item mainly talks to Naturalism (H-NATURALISM), Secular Humanism (H-SECULAR-HUMANISM), Jesus’ Identity (Pre-Res) (H-CHRIST-IDENTITY), and nearby alternatives. That does not mean the item proves those views true or false; it means the clue leans, however slightly or strongly, in those directions within the model.
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Charismatic authority, group dynamics, and ritual practices can produce deep loyalty and elevated teacher-veneration without requiring ontological divinity. This modestly supports naturalistic and secular social-formation accounts, while only mildly pressuring Christ-identity claims.
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Read this as anthropological or culture-pattern evidence. Its category path is Anthropology / Social Formation / Costly Commitment / Authority, which helps set expectations for what kind of question this row can answer.
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This matters because explanations have habits. Some worlds make this clue feel ordinary; others have to work harder to account for it. The Signal tracks that difference without pretending that one row can settle the whole journey.
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Charisma can gather devotion; history is full of leaders who drew loyalty without being divine. This is why devotion alone should not be made to prove Christ identity.
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The Christian pointer is that Jesus-devotion is not being weighed alone. It stands beside Jewish monotheism, resurrection proclamation, divine prerogative claims, worship practice, and the cost borne by witnesses. Sociology may explain the kindling; it must still account for the fire's particular shape.
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The current numerical weight is intentionally bounded: H-NATURALISM: +0.04 log10BF; H-SECULAR-HUMANISM: +0.03 log10BF; H-CHRIST-IDENTITY: -0.04 log10BF; H-CHRIST-AS-LOGOS: -0.04 log10BF; H-ALT-LEGEND: +0.02 log10BF. In ordinary language, this row changes the angle of the map; it does not carry the whole argument on its back.
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Use the citation list attached to this evidence item for source audit. No additional publication details are implied beyond those existing citations.
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