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Origin of Religion

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Cognitive theory of how ritual forms and cultural information may be reproduced and transformed; useful as one model rather than an archaeological description of origins.

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Origin of Religion

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Current archaeological and comparative sources do not identify a single date or place at which religion began.

The Origin of Religion is best understood as a long, layered development rather than a single invention. It grew from human symbolic capacity, social life, death awareness, ritual, story, landscape, altered states, and group memory.
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Bellah and Whitehouse offer multi-factor frameworks involving ritual, cognition, social transmission, and symbolic life; these are models rather than a settled origin sequence.

The Origin of Religion is best understood as a long, layered development rather than a single invention. It grew from human symbolic capacity, social life, death awareness, ritual, story, landscape, altered states, and group memory.
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Middle Stone Age ornament evidence and pre-state Neolithic ritual interpretations predate written state religion, but they do not reveal one motive for religion.

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The listed evidence does not support reducing religion's origin to one cause such as aliens, drugs, fear of death, elite control, or lost-civilization memory.

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