Abstract
The research into behavior from an evolutionary comparative perspective faces principal obstacles as it is not possible to “ask” animals on attitudes, feelings. This “disadvantage” on one hand offers a large advantage on the other hand: the necessity to develop a description of behavior “beyond language” by quantification, mathematics and statistics. Hence to find commonalities that hold true for all living creatures. Hidden commonalities that would have never been apparent from verbal description only. The “quantificational approach” in the tradition of Galileo Galilei is standard in the natural sciences and meanwhile has found its way in the fields of biology.
As religious behavior in all cultures share characteristics, such as religious services, praying, the celebration of religious rituals and feasts; observing and analyzing these characteristics on basis of evolutionary assumption and by applying concepts and methods from behavioral genetics will enable us to develop concept natural sciences concept of “religion”.
As religious behavior in all cultures share characteristics, such as religious services, praying, the celebration of religious rituals and feasts; observing and analyzing these characteristics on basis of evolutionary assumption and by applying concepts and methods from behavioral genetics will enable us to develop concept natural sciences concept of “religion”.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Transformation of Religion |
Subtitle of host publication | Interdisciplinary Perspectives |
Editors | Christian Danz, Jakob Helmut Deibl |
Place of Publication | Paderborn |
Publisher | Brill |
Pages | 111-117 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-657-79025-8 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-506-79025-5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jul 2023 |
Publication series
Series | Religion and Transformation in Contemporary European Society |
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Volume | 25 |
ISSN | 2198-5235 |
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 106018 Human biology