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SUMMARY:Misc Edward Slingerland, UBC The Evolution of Religion and Morality: An interdisciplinary, team-based approach.
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Despite its ubiquity and centrality to human affairs, religion remains, from an academic perspective, one of the least studied and most poorly understood aspects of human behavior. This talk will introduce the theoretical background to a multi-million dollar, 6-year SSHRC Partnership Grant recently awarded to UBC to explore the cultural evolutionary roots of religion and morality, bringing together theorists of religion, philosophers, historians, linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, economists, biologists, and mathematicians to generate hypotheses concerning the evolutionary origins of religion and morality, and to test them with a variety of methods, including textual interpretation, qualitative historical analysis, quantification of historical data, ethnographic observation, controlled laboratory experiments and mathematical modeling.
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