MU anthropologist develops new approach to explain religious behavior
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 - 11:14
in Psychology & Sociology
Without a way to measure religious beliefs, anthropologists have had difficulty studying religion. Now, two anthropologists from the University of Missouri and Arizona State University have developed a new approach to study religion by focusing on verbal communication, an identifiable behavior, instead of speculating about alleged beliefs in the supernatural that cannot actually be identified.