Religion and Art Behavior—A Theory and an Example: The Biblical Prophets as Postcolonial Street Theater

What is it about?

This article argues that religion behavior is (or, more accurately, was once) closely related to art behavior. The cultural processes of modernity might have made this close relation difficult to discern but the history of religions implies the evolutionary and cognitive linkages between these two overlapping and related areas of human activity. The article suggests a theoretical explanation and an illustrative instance in the case of the Hebrew Prophets.

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