Using Neurosociology and Evolutionary Sociology to Explain the Origin and Evolution of Religions

Religion emerged as a cognitive capacity and behavioral propensity by virtue of Darwinian natural selection on hominins and then humans to become more social and group oriented. The capacity to be religious is only a modest extension of the Darwinian selection on cognitive, emotional, and interperso...

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Subtitles:Special Issue on Evolutionary Theories of Religion
Main Author: Turner, Jonathan H. 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. [2016]
In: Journal for the cognitive science of religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 7-29
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Religión / Desarrollo / Teoría de la evolución / Selección natural / Neurociencias / Sociología de la religión / Antropología de la religión
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AE Psychology of religion
Further subjects:B Evolución
B Darwinian selection
B Religión
B Sociology
B Selection
B Non-Darwinian selection
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