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Empirical Perspectives on Religion and Violence
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- The ‘religion as cause’ argument implies that religious faiths are more inherently prone to violence than ideologies that are secular. Following an evaluation of the scientific literature on religion and violence, we argue that wherever evidence links specific aspects of religion with aggression and violence, these aspects are not unique to religion. Rather, these aspects are religious variants of more general psychological processes. Further, there are numerous aspects of religion that buffer against aggression and violence among its adherents. The most distinct feature of religion, supernaturalism, is not often the focus of researchers of religion and violence. Despite this, the paucity of research that has been conducted on this key feature suggests that supernaturalism is associated with reduced aggression and violence. There appears to be very little support for the notion that there is something uniquely religious that causes violence among followers.
- Subjects :
- Aggression
Religious identity
Religiosity
PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences
Fundamentalism
medicine
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Psychology|Social Psychology
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Psychology|Personality and Social Contexts
Sociology
medicine.symptom
Secularism
PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Social and Personality Psychology
PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Social and Personality Psychology|Religion and Spirituality
Religious orientation
Social psychology
Subjects
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8205928ef6b81be80725c22fcfb616ef