An Account of Behavioural Biology on the âConcept of Religionâ

Martin Fieder

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An Account of Behavioural Biology on the âConcept of Religionâ

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Pages:: 111â117

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657790258_008

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The research into behavior from an evolutionary comparative perspective faces principal obstacles as it is not possible to âaskâ animals on attitudes, feelings. This âdisadvantageâ on one hand offers a large advantage on the other hand: the necessity to develop a description of behavior âbeyond languageâ 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 âquantificational approachâ 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 âreligionâ.

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Transformation of Religion

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Series:Â Religion and Transformation in Contemporary European Society, Volume: 25

E-Book ISBN:: 9783657790258

Publisher:: Brill | SchÃ¶ningh

Print Publication Date:: 18 Apr 2023

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