FWIW I think it’s like e.g. food, houses - it emerges to satisfy a human need, and reflects the environment it comes from.
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Build on natural awe and irrational fears, convince a few to bring up their kids to make it a way of life to support and follow you and....voila... a new religion. If it helps maintain order and productivity in society too, it might survive.
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Seems universal since scholars come after it. Even aboriginal tribes sans scholars or the written word have these notions. In the beginning was the Word, but only after hundreds of thousands of years of illiteracy.
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Opportunity for Religious chiefs to get power by promising live after death...
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Religious chiefs only really gained power in India. Religion beyond ancestor worship has been used to build communities outside of Kin basis and has been a vital tool to build societies.
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