Ancestors, Territoriality, and Gods : A Natural History of Religion
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
The Frontiers Collection
ISBN-10
3662570785
ISBN-13
9783662570784
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 12th, 2018
Print length
290 Pages
Weight
458 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 23.20 x 2.10 cms
Ksh 10,450.00
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This books sets out to explain how and why religion came into being. In contrast to the current, but incomplete approaches from disciplines such as cognitive science and psychology, the present authors adopt a new approach, equally manifest and constructive, that explains the origins of religion based strictly on behavioural biology.
This books sets out to explain how and why religion came into being. Today this question is as fascinating as ever, especially since religion has moved to the centre of socio-political relationships. In contrast to the current, but incomplete approaches from disciplines such as cognitive science and psychology, the present authors adopt a new approach, equally manifest and constructive, that explains the origins of religion based strictly on behavioural biology. They employ accepted research results that remove all need for speculation. Decisive factors for the earliest demonstrations of religion are thus territorial behaviour and ranking, coping with existential fears, and conflict solution with the help of rituals. These in turn, in a process of cultural evolution, are shown to be the roots of the historical and contemporary religions.
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