Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism
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Buddha Biography
Buddha's Death
Buddha’s Death
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Extrinsic Motivation
fear and religious motivation
Follow
Ha Na
indian
Indian Religions
Indian Soteriologies
Jeta Grove
Lay Follower
literature
merit and giving in India
pit
psychological factors in Buddhist origins
religion
religious conversion processes
Religious Motivation
Religious Striving
Religious Wanderers
Sam >=sa
Scare Crows
Secondary Control
social psychology of religion
Sutta Pit
texts
UFO Cult
Vice Versa
vinaya
Vinaya Pit
VINAYA PITAKA
Product details
- ISBN 9780700716838
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 29 Aug 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Torkel Brekke holds a DPhil in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford on the politics of religious identity in colonial South Asia. He is currently a research fellow funded by the Norwegian Research Council. His main research interest is the interaction between religions ideas and processes of political and historical change.
