Signaling, solidarity, and the sacred: The evolution of religious behavior
Signaling, solidarity, and the sacred: The evolution of religious behavior
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DOI：
10.1002/evan.10120
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发表时间：
2003
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通讯作者：
R. Sosis;C. Alcorta
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作者：
R. Sosis;C. Alcorta
人类学家一再指出，在过去的50年里，宗教人类学在理论上几乎没有什么进展。然而，最近，进化论研究人员将注意力转向理解塑造人类宗教思想和行为能力的选择性压力，似乎正在恢复这一长期休眠但重要的研究领域。这项工作侧重于最终的进化解释，正在得到神经心理学进步的补充，神经科学家对仪式，恍惚，冥想和其他改变的状态会影响大脑的功能和发育。20 -26后一项研究为负责宗教行为的近似机制的进化提供了重要的见解。在这里，我们回顾了这些文献，并研究了发展一个全面的宗教进化解释所必需的近端机制和最终的进化过程。
Anthropologists have repeatedly noted that there has been little theoretical progress in the anthropology of religion over the past fifty years.1–7 By the 1960s, Geertz2 had pronounced the field dead. Recently, however, evolutionary researchers have turned their attention toward understanding the selective pressures that have shaped the human capacity for religious thoughts and behaviors, and appear to be resurrecting this long‐dormant but important area of research.8–19 This work, which focuses on ultimate evolutionary explanations, is being complemented by advances in neuropsychology and a growing interest among neuroscientists in how ritual, trance, meditation, and other altered states affect brain functioning and development.20–26 This latter research is providing critical insights into the evolution of the proximate mechanisms responsible for religious behavior. Here we review these literatures and examine both the proximate mechanisms and ultimate evolutionary processes essential for developing a comprehensive evolutionary explanation of religion.