Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism
In: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
Abstract
Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? 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 come into being, by focusing on the conversion process of the individual believer.
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Themen
early, vinaya, pit, buddhist, literature, indian, religion, texts, buddha, biographies
Sprachen
Englisch
Verlag
Taylor & Francis
ISBN
9780203994832, 9780700716838, 9780700716845, 9781135788506, 9781135788490, 9781135788452
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