Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism(English, Paperback, Brekke Torkel)

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Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism(English, Paperback, Brekke Torkel) is written by Brekke Torkel and published by Taylor & Francis Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 070071684X (ISBN 10) and 9780700716845 (ISBN 13).

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.