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KMID : 0897520130180020085
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Journal of Korean Association of Social Psychiatry
2013 Volume.18 No. 2 p.85 ~ p.90
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Human and Spirituality : Anthropological Perspectives
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Park Han-Son
Kim Hee-Jun
Choi Jung-Won
Ko Seok-Man
Lee Sang-Min
Hyun June
Choi Young-Sook
Shin Kyung-Chul
Kang Seok-Jin
Choi Yong-Sung
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Abstract
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Religiosity is one of major determinants of an individual’s life experience. Religiosity or spirituality is universal to all race and ethnicity, but human seems to be only organism among a variety of animals when it comes to spirituality. Someone says that religiosity cannot (and should not) be analyzed scientifically because it exist beyond human cognition. In the psychiatric field, this area has also lain dormant for a long time due to some sort of academic taboos about spirituality. However, some pioneers have been doing remarkable progresses to explain possible functions of religiosity by strong hypotheses, like social solidarity theory, ritual healing theory and theory of cognitive adaptation. This article review the traditional anthropological explanations of the origin and evolution of religion, several hypotheses of religion’s cognitive and social functions and the overall impact of religiosity to human mind.
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KEYWORD
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Religiosity, Spirituality, Anthropology, Mental illness
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