Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism

Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism

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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 addre...

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Main Author: Brekke, Torkel (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2002
Series:Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
Subjects:
Regional studies
Philosophy
Buddhism
Ethnic studies
early
vinaya
pit
buddhist
literature
indian
religion
texts
buddha
biographies
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Summary: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.
ISBN:9780203994832
9780700716838;9780700716845;9781135788506;9781135788490;9781135788452
Access:Open Access

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