Nature Middle East | House of Wisdom

Rise of ascetic, moralizing religions result of affluence not politics

A new research, published this month in Current Biology, devised a statistical model that could explain how absolute affluence impacted human motivation and reward systems and in turn affected ascetic wisdoms and religions’ austere moralizing systems – across Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, and Christianity. 

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