Is religion an evolutionarily evoked disease-avoidance strategy?
Religion is a cross-cultural phenomenon that is deserving of an evolutionary explanation. One of the seemingly universal characteristics of religion is its emphasis on purity-related rituals. These rituals may be a clue to the biological and evolutionary underpinnings of religion. It may be that rel...
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| 格式: | 電子 Article |
| 語言: | English |
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Routledge
2017
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Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2017, 卷: 7, 發布: 4, Pages: 328-330 |
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B 宗教 B disease-avoidance B behavioral immune system |
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| 總結: | Religion is a cross-cultural phenomenon that is deserving of an evolutionary explanation. One of the seemingly universal characteristics of religion is its emphasis on purity-related rituals. These rituals may be a clue to the biological and evolutionary underpinnings of religion. It may be that religion is an evolutionarily evoked disease-avoidance strategy. Adopting this perspective can help us better understand some of the most perplexing questions that religion poses. It can help us understand the universal nature of purity-related religious practices, the relation between religious conservatism and prejudice, sex differences in religiosity, and regional differences in religious participation. Lastly, approaching religion from a disease-avoidance perspective can open the doors to an interdisciplinary framework that emphasizes the bio-cultural roots of religion and provides a basis for deriving novel hypotheses. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-5981 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion, brain & behavior
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2016.1249918 |