Knowledge Tree
religious belief
Also known as: religious beliefs, religious views, religious attitudes, religious belief, Religious Belief, religious faith
Facts (15)
Sources
The cross-cultural study of mind and behaviour: a word of caution link.springer.com Apr 8, 2022 2 facts
claimLuhrmann and her collaborators utilize Charles Taylor’s concepts of the ‘porous’ and ‘buffered’ selves to classify theories of mind, which they argue is relevant to understanding the assimilation of religious beliefs.
claimPorous minds, which are more common in non-Western settings like Ghana (Dzokoto 2020) and Vanuatu (Smith 2020), are more amenable to religious beliefs involving the sensory presence of spiritual beings, such as witchcraft, shamanism, and spirit possession.
Epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
claimReligious epistemology studies the role of knowledge and justification for religious doctrines and practices, evaluating the reliability of evidence from religious experience and holy scriptures, and questioning whether the norms of reason should apply to religious faith.
referenceThomas J. Schoenbaum authored the book 'Keeping the Faith: Religious Belief in an Age of Science', published by McFarland & Company in 2015.
Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
claimEvolutionary psychologists remain divided on whether religious belief is a consequence of evolved psychological adaptations or a byproduct of other cognitive adaptations.
perspectiveAdaptationist perspectives suggest that religious beliefs are products of the human brain, with a functional structure that has a genetic foundation and is subject to the effects of natural selection and sexual selection.
Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution frontiersin.org 2 facts
claimMythological narratives and religious beliefs were developed to enable individual integration and collective accommodation of the profound and often unsettling visionary experiences encountered during altered states of consciousness.
claimN. Baumard and P. Boyer proposed a modified dual-process model suggesting religious beliefs are reflective elaborations on intuitions.
The Problem of Hard and Easy Problems cambridge.org Mar 31, 2023 2 facts
claimThe author argues that questions about why unrelated phenomena accompany one another, such as religious beliefs and λ-phage replication, are cases of phenomena sharing a common cause.
claimThe author posits that there are many questions regarding why certain phenomena are accompanied by others, such as λ-phage replication and cosmic background radiation, or religious beliefs and λ-phage replication.
A Scoping Review of Indicators for Sustainable Healthy Diets frontiersin.org Jan 12, 2022 1 fact
claimReligious or spiritual views can determine which foods are categorized as good, bad, holy, unholy, clean, or dirty, according to Fieldhouse (2013).
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
referenceDavid S. Clarke explores the relationship between panpsychism and religious attitudes in his 2012 book 'Panpsychism and the Religious Attitude'.
How Is Language Connected to Identity? → Question lifestyle.sustainability-directory.com Sep 13, 2025 1 fact
claimNames can act as linguistic fingerprints of identity by reflecting ethnic heritage, religious beliefs, or familial aspirations.
Stress, Lifestyle, and Health – Introduction to Psychology open.maricopa.edu 1 fact
perspectiveSome individuals, particularly those with strong religious faith, define happiness as emphasizing virtuosity, reverence, and enlightened spirituality.
Disclosure movement - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimObservers have occasionally compared the disclosure movement to a system of religious belief.