Social science Origins of Religion / Robin Dunbar / Mariko Hasegawa

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[Introduction]
Written by the evolutionary psychology giant Dunbar, 200,000 years of humanity and faith.
Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Shintoism …
Why were the world's major religions born at the same time and in the same climate?
Why were cult religions born one after another and attracted people?
Even in today's age when science is at its height, religion is growing in Barracuda and influence.
Why was faith so deeply rooted in people's minds that it sometimes causes war between nations?
And how it evolved into the world religion we know today?
The author, who is known worldwide for "Danbar Numbers" and won the Thomas Huxley Memorial Prize of the Nobel Prize for anthropology, is a great book on an unprecedented scale.
Faith that creates cooperative behavior within a group is also a driving force for anti-social behavior outside the group.
Tragedy occurs when religious identity is exploited by the state.
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Religion and human life are so complex.
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Introduction
Chapter 1 How to study religion
Chapter 2 Mysticism
Chapter 3 Believers are After serving as president of the British Primate Society and director of the Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology Institute at Oxford University, he is now a special member of the British Academy and the Royal Anthropology Association. He is also an international member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Literature. He received the Order of Osman Hill in 1994 and the Thomas Huxley Memorial Award, the highest honor in anthropology and the Nobel Prize in anthropology, in 2015. He is internationally acclaimed for deriving the "Dunbar number," which is the upper limit of stable group size for humans. His books include the origin of 『 Kotoba : 『, 』 : Why Do We Make Friends? 』 (Aodosha). How many 『 Friends? 『, 』 : 』, Unraveling the mystery of human evolution (Intershift).