RLG100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter The True Development of Religion : Pascal Boyer, James George Frazer, Edward Burnett Tylor
Document Summary
As people continued to speculate about why religion became so globalized, one theory arose that is single-handedly the best way of understanding exactly where religion came from and why people turned to religion. This theory is that of psychologist pascal boyer which has its roots in previous scholars such as james frazer and edward tylor. Boyer stated that ancient people believed that everything that moved was alive, breathing, and had substance, a concept in which. Due to these animistic tendencies in people, they attributed a human status to everything that moved, which is called anthropomorphism. With darwin"s ndings, we know that people who were hypersensitive to things like this and thought like this, actually lived longer and had more children, thus enforcing his theory of natural selection. Sensibly, this also lead people to search for the causes of the natural things in life like why storms and natural disasters happened or why people died.
