Extreme Religious Behaviours : Where Religious Practice and Biological Evolution Clash

Certain religious behaviours clearly reduce biological fitness. These behaviours include celibacy along with various forms of asceticism, and rituals that harm the performer. Such behaviours are found in widely different cultures. How is this possible? This book shows that these behaviours (as is re...
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Gespeichert in:
Autor*in:

Bronkhorst, Johannes [verfasserIn]

Format:

E-Book

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

Berlin Boston: De Gruyter ; 2024

2024

Rechteinformationen:

Restricted Access

Schlagwörter:

RELIGION / Psychology of Religion

Umfang:

1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 207 p.)

Reihe:

Religion and Reason ; Theory in the Study of Religion ; 70

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ISBN:

978-3-11-137440-6

DOI / URN:

10.1515/9783111374406

Katalog-ID:

1900967693

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