Scientific research on human religious behavior is entering a new phase. This is because, based on methodological rigor and empirical data, evolutionary science is developing a naturalistic explanation of human consciousness and behavior, including re...
Scientific research on human religious behavior is entering a new phase. This is because, based on methodological rigor and empirical data, evolutionary science is developing a naturalistic explanation of human consciousness and behavior, including religious behavior. In these circumstances, theology must seek interdisciplinary research on the subject so that the evolutionary approach is not reductively regressive. To this end, this article examines how evolutionary anthropology deals with the issue of the origin of religion, centered on evolutionary anthropologist Agustín Fuentes, and based on this, highlights the possibility of interdisciplinary dialogue between theology and evolutionary anthropology. These attempts will lay the groundwork for the development of interdisciplinary research between evolutionary anthropology and theology on the issue of the origin of religion in the future, and will also contribute to the independent development of each discipline related to the subject.