A cross-national analysis of demographic variation in belief in God, gods, or spiritual forces in 22 countries [PDF]
Scientific ReportsAlthough prior research documents the importance of belief in God (e.g., for health and well-being), most of the research has focused on Western samples. Much less is known about how belief in one God, multiple gods, or spiritual forces (“Belief in God”)
Eric Y. Aglozo +5 more
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Belief in God and Psychological Distress: Is It the Belief or Certainty of the Belief?
Religions, 2021 Research on the relationship between belief in God and mental health is scarce and often limited to comparing group differences in mental health across various self-reported religious identities (e.g., atheists, agnostics, believers).
Zachary E. Magin +5 more
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Childhood predictors of adults’ belief in god, gods, and spiritual forces across 22 countries [PDF]
Scientific ReportsReligion is an integral part of everyday life for billions of people, yet little is known about the developmental antecedents of religious belief outside of Western cultures.
Jordan W. Moon +5 more
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Belief in God by Intuitive knowledge
Kanz Philosophia: A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism, 2016 : The epistemological approach of evidentialism maintains that a belief must have sufficient evidence in order to be rationally justified. The belief in God is no exception, it must pass as well the litmus test of evidence as a measure of its rational ...
Abdolmajid Hakimelahi, Basrir Hamdani
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Belief in God, Confidence in the Church and Secularization in Scandinavia
Secularism and Nonreligion, 2021 We used the three latest rounds of the religion module of International Social Survey Programme to study secularization in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, focusing on belief in God.
Carlos Lemos, Ivan Puga-Gonzalez
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Belief in God among South African youth [PDF]
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1997 This article investigates belief in God among 538 students from standard 9 who attend Anglican and Catholic schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region.
Johannes A. van der Ven +2 more
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Is Olodumare, God in Yoruba Belief, God?: A Response to Benson O. Igboin
Kanz Philosophia: A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism, 2016 : Belief in a Supreme Being is an idea that virtually all cultures of the world subscribe to. However, different interpretation could be deduced from the subscription of each culture.
Oladipupo Sunday Layi
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Religious Belief, Attribution to God, and Acceptance of Passive Immorality: A Pathological Examination of Beliefs without Instruction [PDF]
پژوهشنامه مددکاری اجتماعی, 2023 Previous researches about the relationship between religious belief and morality have reached conflicting findings and this shows that the effect of religious belief on morality cannot be direct.
Ebrahim Ahmadi
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Cross-cultural support for a link between analytic thinking and disbelief in God: Evidence from India and the United Kingdom [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2019 A substantial body of evidence suggests that favoring reason over intuition (employing an analytic cognitive style) is associated with reduced belief in God. In the current work, we address outstanding issues in this literature with two studies examining
Michael N. Stagnaro +3 more
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Belief in God, Belief in Science [PDF]
Implicit Religion, 2019 Bailey’s notion of implicit religion suggests that in contemporary societies the functions served by formal or explicit religions may be assumed by other systems of beliefs. The present paper tests this thesis in respect of the effect of an exaggerated, uncritical, and unqualified belief in the inerrancy of science, which we label “scientific ...
Leslie J. Francis +2 more
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