摘要：The role of religious practices in cultural evolution and theinterrelations of religious and other cultural practices are the topics ofthis paper. This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the social andhistorical conditions of which religious practices have been generated.Additionally, the relation of religious practices to the outcome ofcultural survival is discussed. Our analysis draws upon a number ofdistinctions: cultural vs. noncultural practices, religious vs.nonreligious, religious vs. moral, and moral vs. other cultural practices.We address the significance of these distinctions to the role ofreligious practices in cultural survival and conclude with a discussionof the challenges facing behavior analysts as cultural engineers.
