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Religious motivation and the origins of Buddhism

Torkel Brekke · 2005

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"Why did North Indian people from the fifth century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? Were there common themes in the religious motivation of these early Buddhists? Is it possible to illuminate motivational themes using social psychology?" "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 came into being, by focusing on the conversion process of the individual believer."--BOOK JACKET.

Book details

Year
2005
Language
English
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Editions
5
Pages
160
ISBN
9781135788490

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