Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism

by Torkel Brekke

Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join a sect later coined as Buddhism? 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.

Genres: Buddhism

164 pages, Paperback

First published August 29, 2002

Reviews

[Andy Febrico Bintoro · Rating 4 out of 5]

Religious motivation study

Good studies with multidisciplinary social science. This studies aimed was to know the background and motivation of religions, which usually was on its history and root.