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    Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism

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    A Social-Psychological Exploration of the Origins of a World Religion

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    Author(s)
    Brekke, Torkel
    Language
    English
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    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.
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101286
    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 Control
    DOI
    10.4324/9780203994832
    ISBN
    9781135788506, 9780700716838, 9780203994832, 9780700716845, 9781135788490, 9781135788452, 9781135788506
    OCN
    1048579798
    Publisher
    Taylor & Francis
    Publisher website
    https://taylorandfrancis.com/
    Publication date and place
    Oxford, 2005
    Imprint
    Routledge
    Series
    Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism,
    Classification
    Philosophy of religion
    Buddhism
    Philosophy
    Regional / International studies
    Pages
    160
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • If not noted otherwise all contents are available under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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