Verhalten English https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ep/0004/2010/109/3427/3427.png Evolution 2010 In recent years, interdisciplinary studies on the evolution of religion (commonly defined as behavior towards supernatural agents) made some encouraging progress, with two European conferences leading to shared projects and publications. In September 2007, a range of scientists from diverse fields convened at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) in Delmenhorst, Germany, exploring “The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior” (Springer 2009) especially from empirical perspectives. Among the participants, zoologist Jay R. Feierman advocated a deeper understanding of the “behavioral” side of religion, organizing another conference in July 2008 at Bologna University, leading to the volume “The Biology of Religious Behavior” reviewed here. Owing to this perspective, the volume is structured according to the five-step concept of Nobel Laureate ethologist Niko Tinbergen (1907-1988): 1. Describe the behavior. 2. Explore its evolutionary history. 3. Explore its development in the individual life-cycle. 4. Explore the behavior’s immediate, mechanistic causes. 5. Explore the adaptive (reproductive and survival) potentials of the behavior. The volume offers an exciting read, running the whole gamut from seriously empirical to wildly speculative. article Universitätsbibliothek Marburg Publikationsserver der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg Michael Blume Blume, Michael 2010-04-28 Institute for Comparative Cultural Research - Study of Religions and Anthropology 1418722-x 1996 https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ep/0004/cover.png Philipps-Universität Marburg 1612-2941 Periodical Religion Philosophy and theory of religion Marburg Journal of Religion urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-ep00042 Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften und Philosophie https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.2010.15.1 https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ep/0004/2010/109/cover.png 15 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-ep0004-2010-1095 2010 Vol 15 No 1 (2010) 1 PeriodicalPart faith Biologie 2015-04-28 application/pdf biology https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.2010.15.3427 Glaube 2015-04-28 Jay R. Feiermann. The Biology of Religious Behavior: The Evolutionary Origins of Faith and Religion Religion 2017-12-14 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-ep0004-2010-109-34270 religion