Anthropologists Develop New Approach To Explain Religious Behavior
Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 09:49
in Psychology & Sociology
Without a way to measure religious beliefs, anthropologists have had difficulty studying religion. Now, two anthropologists from the University of Missouri and Arizona State University have developed a new approach to study religion by focusing on verbal communication, an identifiable behavior, instead of speculating about alleged beliefs in the supernatural that cannot actually be identified.