Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism : A Social-Psychological Exploration of the Origins of a World Religion - Curzon Critical Studies in Buddhism

Brekke, Torkel

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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.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780700716845
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	29 Aug 2002
DEWEY:	306.6943
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	288
Weight:	204g
Height:	210mm
Width:	141mm
Spine width:	12mm