The evolutionary origin of religion and religious behavior is a field of study related to evolutionary psychology, the origin of language and mythology, and cross-cultural comparison of the anthropology of religion.

Explore the timline of Religion. Religion (from the Latin Religio, meaning 'restraint,' or Relegere, according to Cicero, meaning 'to repeat, to read again,' or, most likely, Religionem, 'to show respect for what is sacred') is an...

The school of religious history called the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule, a late 19th-century German school of thought, originated the systematic study of religion as a socio-cultural phenomenon. It depicted religion as evolving with human culture, from polytheism to monotheism.

2019年4月19日 · In the first of a two-part special, Brandon Ambrosino examines the evolutionary origins of religion. “This is my body.” These words, recorded in the Gospels as being spoken by Jesus during...

Religion has been a factor of the human experience throughout history, from pre-historic to modern times. The bulk of the human religious experience pre-dates written history, which is roughly 7,000 years old. [1]

2020年2月26日 · Toward the end of this period—by 4,000 to 8,000 years ago—we see clear evidence of formal religious institutions: monuments, gathering places, sanctuaries, and altars. There are numerous explanations for the evolution of …

2023年12月9日 · The religious beliefs and practices of human civilizations have evolved remarkably over millennia, reflecting the complexities and changes in human societies. This evolution can be broadly categorized into five stages: animism, totemism, physiolatry or naturism, polytheism, and monotheism.

Here we reconstruct the evolution of religious beliefs and behaviors in early modern humans using a global sample of hunter-gatherers and seven traits describing hunter-gatherer religiosity: animism, belief in an afterlife, shamanism, ancestor worship, high gods, and worship of ancestors or high gods who are active in human affairs.

We test key hypotheses about religion’s contribution to the expansion of sociality in eight diverse societies from around the world by concentrating on the variation critical to current evolutionary hypotheses about religion’s role in the evolution of cooperation, and focusing on sample, group, and individual-level sources of variation.

2023年8月11日 · While its exact origins remain elusive, various theories provide valuable insights into why and how religion might have arisen. It's an intriguing blend of early humans' attempt to understand their environment, fulfill psychological needs, …