Evolutionary Approaches to Understanding Religion

Pages: 19 - 53
Published: Jan 1, 2017
Abstract
The ubiquity of religion, cross-culturally and historically, suggests that it is likely to have an evolutionary basis. In this chapter we critically review evolutionary approaches to understanding religion by looking, in turn, at three main perspectives: religion as a by-product, religion as an adaptation, and religion as the product of cultural evolutionary processes. It is argued that each of these approaches can potentially account for...
Paper Details
Title
Evolutionary Approaches to Understanding Religion
Published Date
Jan 1, 2017
Journal
Pages
19 - 53
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