Le modèle chamanique soutient-il l’hypothèse adaptative de l’origine de la religion ?

Abstract

Two diverging evolutionary accounts of religion are centered on explaining the phenomenon as an adaptive advantage versus an emergent phenomenon. In the first account, religion is seen as promoting health, with the link formalized in ancestral shamanism, for example. However, empirical research has not been conclusive in demonstrating a direct adaptive function of religion in this particular respect. The second account views religion as a derived product of non-religious adaptive abilities. This account is more compatible with the composite functions of the entity which is termed “religion.”