Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism: A Social-Psychological Exploration of the Origins of a World Religion

9780700716845.jpg

Dublin Core

Title

Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism: A Social-Psychological Exploration of the Origins of a World Religion

Subject

Behavioral Sciences
Humanities
Area Studies

Description

Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This is the first book to apply the insights of social psychology in order to understand the religious motivation of the people who constituted the early Buddhist community. It also addresses the more general and theoretically controversial question of how world religions come into being, by focusing on the conversion process of the individual believer.

Creator

Torkel Brekke

Source

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9780203994832/religious-motivation-origins-buddhism-torkel-brekke?context=ubx&refId=df981ab5-3197-4859-b455-b3ed21bd4fbf

Publisher

Routledge

Date

29 August 2002

Contributor

Ika Rudianto

Rights

CC BY-NC-ND

Format

Pdf

Language

English

Type

Textbooks

Identifier

ISBN: 9780203994832
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203994832

Document Viewer