Gods Above: Naturalizing Religion in Terms of our Shared Ape Social Dominance Behavior

To naturalize religion, we must identify what religion is, and what aspects of it we are trying to explain. In this paper, religious social institutional behavior is the explanatory target, and an explanatory hypothesis based on shared primate social dominance psychology is given. The argument is th...

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Main Author: Wilkins, John S. 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Netherlands [2015]
In: Sophia
Year: 2015, Volume: 54, Issue: 1, Pages: 77-92
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AE Psychology of religion
Further subjects:B Euhemerism
B evolution of religion
B Phylogenetic bracketing
B Social Dominance
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