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Journal Article
The Adaptive Value of Religious Ritual
2004
Overview
Sosis investigates why religious belief, practices and institutions continue to be essential components of human social life. He suggests that the strangeness of religious practices and their inherent costs are actually the critical features that contribute to the success of religion as a universal cultural strategy and why natural selection has favored such behavior in the human lineage. He also points out that if the intragroup solidarity that religion promotes is one of its significant adaptive benefits, then from its beginning, religion has probably played a role in intergroup conflicts.
Publisher
Sigma XI-The Scientific Research Society
