Biological turn a socjologia religi
Biological turn and the sociology of religion

Summary/Abstract: The article presents some examples demonstrating the potential benefits that the sociology of religion can obtain from including a sociobiological perspective. The question posed by biologists about the evolutionary meaning of religion for human societies allows us to return to the question of the social functions of religion, which in turn sheds new light on the issue of secularization. The signaling theory used by sociobiologists to explain religious rituals reframed in the context of the relationship between – religious organizations and the faithful benefitting from their services, allows us to take into account an additional mechanism that explains the observed relationship between the number of religious staff and demographics.

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