Religious conservatism: an evolutionarily evoked disease-avoidance strategy
Issues of purity and symbolic cleansing (e.g., baptism) play an important role in most religions, especially Christianity. The purpose of the current research was to provide an evolutionary framework for understanding the role of disgust in religiosity, which may help elucidate the relationship betw...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge
2012
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Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2012, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 105-120 |
Further subjects: | B
Disgust
B religious conservatism B Prejudice B behavioral immune system |
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