Religia w perspektywie ewolucjonistycznej, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem jej funkcji socjalizacyjnej
Religion in Evolutionary Perspective with Particular Reference to Its Socialization Function

Summary/Abstract: This paper gives an overview of the potential integrative function of religion from the evolutionary standpoint. In order to ful ll those aims, the work rst addresses the characterization of the use of an evolutionary paradigm for the study of religion. In this section, the most prominent evolutionary hypothe- ses of religion are discussed: the sociobiological view, memetic approach and cognitive perspective. Subsequently, the article also introduces several con- ceptual dif culties of the whole program of Darwinian religious study. In the nal part of the paper, a couple of the most important religious mechanisms of social integration are shown.

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