#fundamentalism — Public Fediverse posts
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The fight for #equality of #women #LGBTQ people, #socially disadvantaged, #indigenous people will never be won until we don’t defeat modern #capitalism and it’s #fascist ideology, which is supported by religious #fundamentalism and fanatics. I think that #democracy can be achieved only with true eco #socialism
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A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that specific networks in the brain -- when damaged -- may influence the likelihood of developing #religious #fundamentalism.
By analyzing patients with focal brain #lesions, researchers found that damage to a particular network of brain regions—was associated with higher levels of fundamentalist beliefs.
This finding provides new insight into the potential neural basis of religious fundamentalism,
which has long been studied in psychology but less so in neuroscience.Religious fundamentalism is a way of thinking and behaving characterized by a rigid adherence to religious doctrines that are seen as absolute and inerrant.
It’s been linked to various cognitive traits such as 🔸authoritarianism, 🔸resistance to doubt, 🔸and a lower complexity of thought.While much of the research on religious fundamentalism has focused on social and environmental factors like family upbringing and cultural influence,
there has been growing interest in the role of biology.Some studies have suggested that genetic factors or brain function may influence religiosity,
but until now, very little research has looked at specific brain networks that could underlie fundamentalist thinking.The authors of the study hypothesized that instead of a single brain region being responsible, religious fundamentalism might arise from damage to a distributed network of connected brain regions.
