What Is Religion and Where Does It Come From?

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i mhenk: What's really fastinated me about this account is that we've been talking about religion for 20 minutes, and ye i asked you, what is it and where does it come from. And not once have you said the traditional explanation, which is, well, humans were trying to explain why such and such happened. The story that i have heard my whole life always posits religion as being an alternative, or an early form of science,. Almost, that it's a way of humans understanding the world. But in your account that you've been giving for a bit now, you haven't mentioned that piece of religion at all. Do those sorts of questions have any efficacy

Instead of debunking religious beliefs, what if we investigated where religion comes from, and why it’s virtually universal across human cultures? Anthropologist and “How Religion Evolved And Why It Endures” author Robin Dunbar joins Adam to discuss the origins of religion. He describes how touch, laughter, and song bonded people together, and the social role of religious rituals such as sin-eating. You can purchase Robin’s book here: http://factuallypod.com/books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.