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Wunn, Ina; Grojnowski, Davina - Ancestors, Territoriality, and Gods - 9783662527559 - V9783662527559
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Ancestors, Territoriality, and Gods

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Description for Ancestors, Territoriality, and Gods Hardback. Series: The Frontiers Collection. Num Pages: 297 pages, 97 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HD; HRA; JFC; PSAJ; PSVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 613.
This books sets out to explain how and why religion came into being. Today this question is as fascinating as ever, especially since religion has moved to the centre of socio-political relationships. In contrast to the current, but incomplete approaches from disciplines such as cognitive science and psychology, the present authors adopt a new approach, equally manifest and constructive, that explains the origins of religion based strictly on behavioural biology. They employ accepted research results that remove all need for speculation. Decisive factors for the earliest demonstrations of religion are thus territorial behaviour and ranking, coping with existential fears, and conflict solution with the help of rituals. These in ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
297
Condition
New
Series
The Frontiers Collection
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783662527559
SKU
V9783662527559
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About Wunn, Ina; Grojnowski, Davina
Ina Wunn studied Biology and Geology at Philipps-University of Marburg and received a doctorate in Palaeontology (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1985. After a three-year stay in Africa she returned to university to study Religious Studies and Philosophy and to do a doctoral degree in Religious Studies in 1999. In 2002, she received the postdoctoral lecturer qualification (venia legendi) in Religious ... Read more

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