Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism
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A Social-Psychological Exploration of the Origins of a World Religion
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.
Keywords
Religious Motivation; early; Early Buddhism; vinaya; Vinaya Pit; pit; Early Buddhist Literature; buddhist; VINAYA PITAKA; literature; Vice Versa; indian; Buddha Biography; religion; Lay Follower; texts; Indian Religions; buddha; Sutta Pit; biographies; Direct Disciples; Follow; Sam ≥sa; Jeta Grove; Religious Wanderers; Scare Crows; Buddhist Missionary Activity; UFO Cult; Religious Striving; Secondary ControlDOI
10.4324/9780203994832ISBN
9781135788506, 9780700716838, 9780203994832, 9780700716845, 9781135788490, 9781135788452, 9781135788506OCN
1048579798Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
Oxford, 2005Imprint
RoutledgeSeries
Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism,Classification
Philosophy of religion
Buddhism
Philosophy
Regional / International studies