TY - BOOK ID - 90460021 TI - Religious motivation and the origins of Buddhism : a social-psychological exploration of the origins of a world religion PY - 2002 SN - 070071684X 0700716831 1135788502 1135788499 1280156570 0203994833 PB - London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, DB - UniCat KW - Buddhism KW - Buddhist converts KW - Buddhist sanghas. KW - Buddhists KW - Conversion KW - Social aspects. KW - Psychology. KW - History KW - Buddhism. KW - Converts KW - Lamaists KW - Religious adherents KW - Buddhist communities KW - Buddhist samghas KW - Communities, Buddhist KW - Samghas, Buddhist KW - Sanghas, Buddhist KW - Religious institutions KW - Buddhist monasticism and religious orders KW - early KW - vinaya KW - pit KW - buddhist KW - literature KW - indian KW - religion KW - texts KW - buddha KW - biographies UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:90460021 AB - 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. ER -