Religious Motivation And The Origins Of Buddhism: A Social-Psychological Exploration Of The Origins Of A World Religion

Book Summary


Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join a sect later coined as Buddhism? 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.

Book Details


Book Name Religious Motivation And The Origins Of Buddhism: A Social-Psychological Exploration Of The Origins Of A World Religion
Author Torkel Brekke
Publisher Routledge/curzon (Oct 2002)
ISBN 9780700716838
Pages 160
Language English
Price 10851
 
 

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