Hypotheses
- Increased salience of conflict is related to increased punitive-God belief over time (288).Caluori, Nava - Conflict Changes How People View God, 2020 - 2 Variables
The researchers conducted four studies using multiple methods. All of the studies examined the ways in which conflict may shape religion, and, more specifically whether conflict relates to an increased belief in a punitive god. Study 2 compared individuals from four countries; study 4 used worldwide data. We don't report results from the American sample (study 1) or from study 3. As a result of all four studies, the researchers suggest that since beliefs in punitive gods are better able to preserve order and enforce traditions, they may be particularly attractive during times of conflict.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Material security will be positively correlated with viewing deities as moral.Purzycki, Benjamin Grant - Material security, life history, and moralistic religions: A cross cultural ..., 2018 - 2 Variables
This article is a quantitative analysis of 592 participants from 8 societies. The study examines a number of theories about what predicts moralistic religions, including life history theory. Findings suggest that there is no evident relationship between these life history predictions and the religious beliefs regarding moralism.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Material security will be positively correlated with greater claims of deity omniscience.Purzycki, Benjamin Grant - Material security, life history, and moralistic religions: A cross cultural ..., 2018 - 2 Variables
This article is a quantitative analysis of 592 participants from 8 societies. The study examines a number of theories about what predicts moralistic religions, including life history theory. Findings suggest that there is no evident relationship between these life history predictions and the religious beliefs regarding moralism.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Presence of a 'moralizing god' in ethnic belief systems is associated with frequency of armed conflict events (1).Skali, Ahmed - Ancestral belief systems and armed conflict, 2016 - 2 Variables
Does religion cause violent conflict? In order to examine this question, the researcher tests the correlation between occurrence of belief in a moralizing god and frequency of conflict events in sub-regional Africa, controlling for various geographic and biotic variables. A significant positive correlation prompts speculation about the theoretical mechanisms by which belief in a moralizing god, including unwillingness to compromise on sacred scripture and exclusionary group identity formation, could engender violent conflict.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Economic complexity is positively associated with monotheism (859)Underhill, Ralph - Economic and political antecedents of monotheism: a cross-cultural study, 1975 - 2 Variables
Examines the cross-cultural correlates of belief in a high god or supreme creator. The results are compared to and found to be inconsistent with the theoretical perspectives of Swanson (1960) and Durkheim (1912).
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Political complexity is positively associated with monotheism (859)Underhill, Ralph - Economic and political antecedents of monotheism: a cross-cultural study, 1975 - 2 Variables
Examines the cross-cultural correlates of belief in a high god or supreme creator. The results are compared to and found to be inconsistent with the theoretical perspectives of Swanson (1960) and Durkheim (1912).
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Material security will be positively associated with the claim that deities punish morality violations.Purzycki, Benjamin Grant - Material security, life history, and moralistic religions: A cross cultural ..., 2018 - 2 Variables
This article is a quantitative analysis of 592 participants from 8 societies. The study examines a number of theories about what predicts moralistic religions, including life history theory. Findings suggest that there is no evident relationship between these life history predictions and the religious beliefs regarding moralism.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Rates of lethal aggression (sharp force trauma, SFT) covary negatively with environmental productivity (12120).Allen, Mark W. - Resource scarcity drives lethal aggression among prehistoric hunter-gatherer..., 2016 - 2 Variables
Previous research into the origins of human violence and warfare has oftentimes been inconclusive and controversial. This paper examines two alternative theories as to the evolution of human violence using archaeological records on sharp force trauma (SFT) and blunt force trauma (BFT). The study is limited to 13 different California ethnolinguistic groups. Researchers find that violence is not predicted by sociopolitical complexity, but rather by environmental productivity. This supports the idea that in contexts of resource scarcity, the perceived benefits to engage in lethal aggression may outweigh perceived costs.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - In many societies, religion and morality will not be associated (621).Stark, Rodney - Gods, rituals, and the moral order, 2001 - 1 Variables
Stark attempts to resituate Tylor's formulation of religion by calling into question Swanson's (1960) and Peregrine's (1996) findings that supernatural sanctions and moral behavior are consistently correlated in small-scale societies. Positing that Swanson's correlations were confounded by variables related to cultural complexity, Stark tests the association of presence of moralizing Gods with cultural complexity explicitly, as well as measures of morality in various nations as provided by the World Values Survey (1990-1991). The robust correlations across cultures noted below, as well as cross-national findings, provide support for the researcher's theory that it is particular conceptions of God rather than participation in rites and rituals which empower religion to sustain complex moral culture.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Monotheism predicts more gender inequality (336); subsistence also predicts gender inequalityStover, Ronald G. - Monotheism and gender status: a cross-societal study, 1984 - 3 Variables
This study examines the relationship between society and ideology focusing on gender status and religious beliefs. Hypotheses are tested to characterize the relationship and determine the impact of subsistence pattern on this interaction.
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