PEÑA, PATRICIA ANNE GR. 12- SINCERITY HUMSS INTRODUCTION TO WORLD RELIGIONS AND BELIEF SYSTEMS https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4650154/ The nature and dynamics of world religions: a life-history approach Religion is a human being’s relation to that which they regard as holy, sacred, spiritual, divine, or worthy of especial reverence. It could be associated to human behavior, the distinction between good and bad or right and wrong behavior. In this perspective, religious beliefs are not part of a life-history coordinated strategy per se. Rather, they are a set of beliefs that are pragmatically held by slow-life individuals to help them moralize fast-life behaviors. Several problems arise as a result of these historical events. Why did world religions emerge so late in human history and in such a few locations? Why did they exhibit the same extremely unique combination of close cooperation, limited sociosexuality, and delayed gratification across civilizations? W