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Jul 16, 2020 · Stich distinguishes three easily conflated versions of the idea that religion and its evolution influenced the evolution of moral norms. Appealing to a growing body of evidence that “moral” and “conventional” categories of norms are not cross-culturally robust, Stich first argues that religion could not have been responsible for any ...
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- Culture, Religion, and Freedom of Religion or Belief
Nov 15, 2020 · The seven dimensions of religion are a framework for exploring and understanding religion, developed by the Scottish scholar of religion, Ninian Smart.
Based on the cultural processes of objectification and interiorization, a stable, regular, predictable, taken for granted, reassuring world — or nomos (i.e., normative order) — is created. Religion develops because the stability of culture is inherently fragile.
Sep 19, 2018 · Having defined what religion is, Smith then turns to outline why people are religious, which is a long list. Humans are religious because religion provides community, identity, meaning, ecstasy, aesthetic enjoyment, social control, and emotional energy from worship and collective action.
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Dec 11, 2018 · Culture is seen as holding harmful practices such as FGM, containing barriers to gender equality, and being hostile or intolerant to other groups, including other religious groups or religious minorities. Yet a key debate concerns the legitimacy of these assumptions about both culture and religion.
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Religion, Normative Standards, and Behavior * RUSSELL MIDDLETON, Florida State University. SNELL PUTNEY, San Jose State College. The relation between religion and morality is investigated through a com-parison of the normative standards and behavior patterns of religious and skeptical individuals.
Sep 27, 2006 · Religion and Morality in Western Philosophy. From the beginning of the Abrahamic faiths and of Greek philosophy, religion and morality have been closely intertwined in Western thought. This is true whether we go back within Greek philosophy or within Christianity and Judaism and Islam.