Extreme Religious Behaviours

Notes

1

The Introduction and chapter 1 are based on the article “Can religion be explained? The role of absorption in various religious phenomena,” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 29(1), 2017, 1 – 30, https://doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341375.

2

For a similar list of puzzling aspects of religion, see Henrich 2009: 245.

3

Among the numerous studies of this kind we may mention D. S. Wilson (2002), Alcorta & Sosis (2005), Bering (2006), Wade (2009), Norenzayan (2012; 2013, to be read with Stausberg 2014, and the literature there summarized), Wiebe (2013), Whitehouse (2021), and many others; see also the various contributions to the thematic section on “Evolutionary approaches to the study of religion” in Religion volume 41, issue 3 ...