Evolutionary theories of religion are essential for understanding current trends in terrorist activity. We outline recent theoretical developments that focus on four cross-culturally recurrent features of religion: communal participation in costly ritual, belief in supernatural agents and counterintuitive concepts, separation of the sacred and the profane, and adolescence as the critical life p...

In India perfumes and scented articles were in use from pre Vedic and Vedic periods for religious practices, social customs, and domestic rituals and later gradually became part and parcel of human life. Perfumes were also used in cosmetics and beauty aids. Medicinal values of many perfumes were well known to ancient Indians and were used in both rituals and to treat diseases. Medicated fumigat...

Joseph Henrich Department of Economics and Department of Psychology University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada [email protected] Abstract Understanding religion requires explaining why supernatural beliefs, devotions, and rituals are both universal and variable across cultures, and why religion is so often associated with both large-scale cooperation and enduring group conflict...

following failures in economic growth and developmental policies and the emergence of dissatisfactions related to conducting these policies, different scholars focused on life satisfaction issues. according to them, different factors determine people’s life satisfaction and religiosity and religious circumstances of the society are considered among the most important factors. this paper second ...

Religious ecology is a new approach to the research of religions from angle ecological issues. The purpose this find in scriptures, theological theories and hermeneutic texts different values relating perspective religious cognition, worldview, outlook on life, ethical principles, norms, rituals. Thus, considers ways organizations guide their followers’ behavior relation environment around, eva...

Religions are a set of beliefs, attitudes, and practices about transcendence. They formed by complex social cultural rituals customs. Given that religion is also vital to the Indigenous Peoples, this study employed Centrality Religiosity Scale (CRS) measure understand nuances religiosity youth Cordillera, known as Igorots, in Philippines. The Cordilleran youth’s particularly interesting researc...

Long-established rituals in preexisting cultural groups have been linked to the cultural evolution of group cooperation. We tested the prediction that novel rituals-arbitrary hand and body gestures enacted in a stereotypical and repeated fashion-can inculcate intergroup bias in newly formed groups. In four experiments, participants practiced novel rituals at home for 1 week (Experiments 1, 2, a...

Mental health professionals frequently express concerns about the role of spirituality or religion in the lives of people diagnosed with severe mental illness—including schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar and schizoaffective disorders. These concerns flow from a number of sources: the not infrequent religious content of delusions and hallucinations; a sense that the metaphoric nature of sp...

The ethnic mobilisation that has unfolded throughout post-Soviet territory cannot be understood without a thorough examination of the preservation and transmission identity in Soviet times. Despite vast historiography devoted to studying various aspects Jewish during period, religiosity rarely been an object research. purpose this study is identify religious practices continued exist among popu...