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Revista del Museo de Antropología
versão impressa ISSN 1852-060Xversão On-line ISSN 1852-4826
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BLOCH, Maurice e VISACOVSKY, Sergio E.. Why religion is nothing special but is central. Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2021, vol.14, n.3, pp.00-00. ISSN 1852-060X. http://dx.doi.org/http://doi.org/10.31048/1852.4826.v14.n3.34165.
It is proposed that explaining religion in evolutionary terms is a misleading enterprise because religion is an indissoluble part of a unique aspect of human social organization. Theoretical and empirical research should focus on what differentiates human sociality from that of other primates, i.e. the fact that members of society often act towards each other in terms of essentialized roles and groups. These have a phenomenological existence that is not based on everyday empirical monitoring but on imagined statuses and communities, such as clans or nations. The neurological basis for this type of social, which includes religion, will therefore depend on the development of imagination. It is suggested that such a development of imagination occurred at about the time of the Upper Palaeolithic ‘revolution’.
Palavras-chave : Religion; Sociality; Imagination; Evolution.