Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture Docker social scientists and policy makers

social scientists and policy makers

Nanda finds an explanation for this disparity in the sharp divide between the developed and developing countries

the intensity of religious belief and sectarianism

and the broader implications that follow for

Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture Docker social scientists and policy makersAttempts to understand the origins of humanity have raised fundamental questions about the complex relationship between cognition and culture. Central to the debates on origins is the role of religion, religious ritual and religious experience. What came first: individual religious (ecstatic) experiences, collective observances of transition situations, fear of death, ritual competence, magical coercion; mirror neurons or temporal lobe religiosity?