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

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought is a 2001 book by cognitive anthropologist Pascal Boyer, in which the author discusses...

The evolutionary psychology of religion is the study of religious belief using evolutionary psychology principles. It is one approach to the psychology...

Origin of religion may refer to: Evolutionary origins of religion for information on the evolutionary evidence for the when, where and how the first religions...

Patriarchate of Constantinople. Axial Age Evolutionary origin of religion History of religion Holocene calendar Chibanian Paleolithic religion Prehistoric...

introduced "Origin of language" as a separate heading in 1988, as a sub-topic of psycholinguistics. Dedicated research institutes of evolutionary linguistics...

about religion generally attempt to explain the origin and function of religion. These theories define what they present as universal characteristics of religious...

Though twentieth-century historian of religion Mircea Eliade felt that even this earliest branch on the human evolutionary line "had a certain spiritual awareness"...

considered by Émile Durkheim to be central to the social reality of human religion. The term profane originates from classical Latin profanus, literally...

philosophical concerns of religion such as ethics, metaphysics and the nature and forms of salvation. It also considers and compares the origins and similarities...