Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism

Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This is the first book to apply the insights of social psychology in order to understand the religious motivation of the people who constituted the early Buddhist community. It also addre...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1590492025-05-03T04:59:39Z Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism Brekke, Torkel Religious Motivation early Early Buddhism vinaya Vinaya Pit pit Early Buddhist Literature buddhist VINAYA PITAKA literature Vice Versa indian Buddha Biography religion Lay Follower texts Indian Religions buddha Sutta Pit biographies Direct Disciples Follow Sam ≥sa Jeta Grove Religious Wanderers Scare Crows Buddhist Missionary Activity UFO Cult Religious Striving Secondary Control Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This is the first book to apply the insights of social psychology in order to understand the religious motivation of the people who constituted the early Buddhist community. It also addresses the more general and theoretically controversial question of how world religions come into being, by focusing on the conversion process of the individual believer. 2025-05-03T04:59:36Z 2025-05-03T04:59:36Z 2025-05-02T12:22:14Z 2005 book ONIX_20250502_9781135788506_26 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101286 9781135788506 9780700716838 9780203994832 9780700716845 9781135788490 9781135788452 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159049 eng Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101286/1/9781135788506.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780203994832 10.4324/9780203994832 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781135788506 9780700716838 9780203994832 9780700716845 9781135788490 9781135788452 Routledge 160 Oxford open access
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Indian Religions
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Sutta Pit
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Direct Disciples
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Jeta Grove
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Scare Crows
Buddhist Missionary Activity
UFO Cult
Religious Striving
Secondary Control
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Buddhist Missionary Activity
UFO Cult
Religious Striving
Secondary Control
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