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Currently researchers employ three major evolutionary frameworks to study religion—evolutionary psychology, behavioral ecology, and dual-inheritance theory—each with different assumptions, methods, and areas of focus.
1 Ιαν 2008 · Abstract and Figures. Contemporary historiographic critiques of science-religion warfare notwithstanding, there is no denying that Darwinism has been seen by both advocates and critics as ...
4 Φεβ 2009 · Theistic evolution – A belief held by some religious groups, including the Catholic Church, that God is the guiding force behind the process of evolution. This report was written by David Masci, a senior researcher at the Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project.
This Element focuses on three challenges of evolution to religion: teleology, human origins, and the evolution of religion itself. First, religious worldviews tend to presuppose a teleological understanding of the origins of living things, but scientists mostly understand evolution as non-teleological. Second, religious and scientific accounts ...
Evolutionary theory offers a comprehensive explanation of how cooperative and altruistic traits can evolve, despite their vulnerability to exploitation by self-serving individuals, which can be brought to bear on the study of religion.
different manifestations of religion evolve? In the field of evolutionary religious studies, scholars examine possible underlying psychological mechanisms of religious belief and behavior, as well as their adaptive and maladaptive features, to seek scientific answers to these questions.
This ambitious book probes our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have imagined were worth living. Bellah’s theory goes deep into ...
