An Account of Behavioural Biology on the “Concept of Religion"

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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”.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTransformation of Religion
Subtitle of host publicationInterdisciplinary Perspectives
EditorsChristian Danz, Jakob Helmut Deibl
Place of PublicationPaderborn
PublisherBrill
Pages111-117
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-657-79025-8
ISBN (Print)978-3-506-79025-5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2023

Publication series

SeriesReligion and Transformation in Contemporary European Society
Volume25
ISSN2198-5235

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 106018 Human biology

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