Evolutionary origin of religion

[Christy (Christy Hemphill)]

You might find the discussion on this fairly recent thread relevant to your questions:

What are views at BioLogos of “Evolutionary Religious Studies”?

https://thisviewoflife.com/evolutionary-religious-studies-comes-of-age/ “the field of Evolutionary Religious Studies (ERS) emerged at the end of the 20th Century as part of a more general rethinking of all human-related subjects that gave rise to terms such as Evolutionary Psychology, Evolutionary Anthropology, and Evolutionary Economics. ERS has made rapid progress during the last 20 years, in part by organizing the vast amount of empirical information on religion that has accumulated, much a…