#religiosity — Public Fediverse posts

A longitudinal study of about 2,800 U.S. teenagers, followed for about 10 years, found that greater material security during early adolescence had a small but significant association with more secularization by early adulthood.

Summary: https://www.psypost.org/financial-security-in-childhood-predicts-a-later-loss-of-religious-faith/

Original paper: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/evolutionary-human-sciences/article/longitudinal-associations-of-material-security-and-belief-in-god-in-young-americans/7EBB39D2F19EAB61D94B13174D847982

#Science #Psychology #Religion #Religiosity #Atheism

RE: https://hostux.social/@bmacDonald94/116233671144959056

The #Believers

#magicalThinking
#Cultists
#religiosity
#theology
#Theism
#Religion spoils everything

Take 1 part #Jingoism
1 part #ChristianNationalism
1 part #Fundamentalism
Add some #racism #misogyny and a pinch of #ignorance soaked for decades in
#oligarchy #patriarchy and #propaganda

And you get
#Fascism and #Nazis

@randahl @macberg

Wow. Yes. Oh man.

This young woman absolutely nails the #MAGA + #patriarchy + #mysoginy + #religiosity + #capitalism + #TransPhobia + #HyperMasculinity

Old white guy here .. raised in #evangelical #fundamentalism

I have spent the bulk of my life recovering from that background.

https://youtu.be/6dbF5eub05o?si=uOWHt-f99gU_HnP6

Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the ultimate nepo-baby...

#Religiosity #Power

New video: Watch Ayse Guveli from the University of #Warwick in our #CPCCGWebinar from last week. She discussed the 2000 #Families and The Third Generation projects which aim to reveal the consequences and the long-term impact of #migration on #migrants from Turkey and on their three #generation #descendants by comparing them to their non-migrant counterparts in #Turkey:

https://youtu.be/Ngobm5I-mh0?si=TQ608VQkCa0wXayB&t=1

#demography #sociology #inequality #education #labourmarkets #genderroles #religiosity #assimilation

"People are not leaving the church because they’ve fallen away from Christ, they’re leaving the church because Christians are protecting pedophiles in the White House (Trump) and in congress (Gaetz), while claiming moral superiority because they’re 'pro-life.'”

~ Megan Tschanz

#UnitedStates #religion #religiosity #churches
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https://www.threads.com/@meghantschanz/post/DRBK-YKDjmx

"The United States has experienced one of the largest declines in religiosity globally over the past decade, new research shows.

There has been a 17-percent drop in in the number of U.S. adults who say religion is an important part of their daily life between 2015, when it was 66 percent, and 2025, when it is 49 percent, according to recent Gallup polls."

~ Jordan King

#UnitedStates #religion #religiosity #churches
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https://www.newsweek.com/us-decline-in-religion-among-biggest-in-world-11047526

"The 17-point drop in the percentage of U.S. adults who say religion is an important part of their daily life — from 66% in 2015 to 49% today — ranks among the largest Gallup has recorded in any country over any 10-year period since 2007."

~ Benedict Vigers and Julie Ray

#UnitedStates #religion #religiosity #churches
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https://news.gallup.com/poll/697676/drop-religiosity-among-largest-world.aspx

#Religiosity is mostly unrelated to #Islamophobia, nativism, right-wing authoritarianism, and #populism. But Islamophobia overlaps with both nativism and authoritarianism. So: people who fear immigration and want strict laws/harsh enforcement 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 tend to reject Islam, but not for religious reasons.

🚨 🚨 🚨 New OA publication in Research&Politics out today: #Islamophobia in Western Europe is unrelated to ✝️ #religiosity but highly correlated with #farright attitudes. A short 🧵

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20531680251351895

Responding to the President on religion - https://youtu.be/ObePfeqlP_U?si=vs8QH2yqwzE3G8g3 #ChristianNationalism #FreedomOFReligion #FreedomFROMReligion #ChurchStateSeparation #religion #DanMcClellan #SecularGovernment #CriticalThinking #USReligiosity #Religiosity

Right-wing authoritarianism linked to perceived threat from minoritized groups, but national context matters https://www.psypost.org/right-wing-authoritarianism-linked-to-perceived-threat-from-minoritized-groups-but-national-context-matters/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #RightWingAuthoritarianism #MinoritizedGroups #SocialContext #AuthoritarianAttitudes #Religiosity

Bio of #Religion, #Anxiety/Fear, #Insulin Resistance | #RobertSapolsky Father-Offspring Interviews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2pj3cj-dRI

Episode 45 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this video include the #biology behind #religiosity variance, including the relevance of anxiety vs. #fear, and #insulinresistance in #type2diabetes.

A thought from back in the day, not so long ago, when people might still have questioned it: "Religiosity & decency are unrelated. Any degree or none of each can co-exist with any degree or none of the other. Neither derives from nor causes the other." #philosophy #religion #religiosity

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jan 11, 2025

https://bit.ly/stc011125

#logging #plantation #biodiversity #Borneo #earthquakes #oil #extraction #model #link #abortion #population #hiring #outflow #economic #hookworm #canine #resistance #benzimidazole #mutation #existential #security #education #urbanicity #religiosity

Modern social conditions are not the cause of decrease in religiosity, study finds https://www.psypost.org/modern-social-conditions-are-not-the-cause-of-decrease-in-religiosity-study-finds/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Religiosity #SocialConditions #Research #ExistentialSecurity #Education

@ElleGray

...so funny.

Also the unironic and serious conviction that the particular religious ideology invoked - has any bearing on the issue.

#Theocracy #religiosity #christofascism #misogyny #patriarchy #cults and #Brainwashing

I need to catch a train to the airport, but let's review some common findings from this year's #IACSR/#IACESR:

#Spirituality seemed somewhat distinct from #religiosity
- Spirituality is perceived as more compatible with caring about and doing #science
- Reflective thinking may predict religiosity more reliably than spirituality

#Ritual
- is not just a religious phenomena
- is preferred differently between #cultures
- seems to help transmit #culture, belief, etc. (perhaps via #imagination

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In the #Religiosity and #Thinking session, I'm sharing different aspects of the new #data I presented Wednesday (at #AtheismExplained, see top post in thread):

In addition to the aforementioned findings, we found that #spirituality correlated with #reflection test performance LESS reliably than #religiosity (and #apostasy) did: https://nerdculture.de/@ByrdNick/112683095691417678

On Wednesday, I posted 2 of the other 3 talks in today's session (Omid's and Nori's). So below I'll post only about the new one by Meara Geraty.

We know financial security predicts less #religiosity in the aggregate, but is this causal?

Martin Lang reported an experiment on U.S. and Polish people indicating that it is.

You can follow Martin on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Martin-Lang-6

#economics #finance #religion #atheism #psychology #stats #causation #games

What about #atheism in regions of #Africa?

Dr. Kevin Muriithi Ndereba shared descriptive #stats and quotes from ≅20 people — mostly #religious, but not all #Christian.

What stood out to me:
- #animism has multiple facets (e.g., as #religion vs. as #philosophy)
- at least one person reported no #religious belief despite #belief in a "supreme being"
- some respondents described #charismatic #religiosity as excessive/negative

You can follow Kevin on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin-Ndereba

I started Day 2 of #Atheism Explained? in another #Secularization session.

First, highlights of interviews about non-#religiosity in #Estonia from Atko Remmel (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Atko-Remmel)

Then Piotr Paweł Laskowski shared that in an expanded DIM-R dataset (https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2024.2305447) there were — among other things — intermediate relationships between analytic thinking and (lower) odds of #religion in a large sample of people from #Poland — more on this tomorrow, I'm told.

#replication #xPhi #psych

Why are so many religious people crazy?

Why are so many crazy people religious?

It is almost as if craziness & religiosity are necessarily co-existent.

#religion #religiosity #philosophy

#TIL #TodayILearned #Religiosity and #Conspiratorial #Beliefs were strongly linked in a Baylor University study

https://news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2021/religiosity-and-conspiratorial-beliefs-linked-baylor-religion-survey-findings

- The intersection of religion and politics makes the discrete religion effect on conspiratorial thinking hard to concisely determine, and we must note that there are lots of different types and expressions of religiosity.

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#newResearch identifies an association between biblical literalism and fear of crime victimization. A thorough report offered by F. Carson Mencken, Kyra N. Neill, Jesse L. DeDeyne, Daniel M. Allen & Amanda C. McGowan explores the details.
#sociology #quantitativeResearch #religiosity @sociology

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00380237.2024.2330467

Faith and conspiracy: Study shows religiosity is related to belief in COVID-19 conspiracies

https://www.psypost.org/faith-and-conspiracy-study-shows-religiosity-is-related-to-belief-in-covid-19-conspiracies/

#psychology #health #cognitivescience #religiosity #religion #religious #conspiracytheory #conspiracy #covid #COVID19

'I’m not at #church.' Even the #GOP is #balking at #Speaker #MikeJohnson's #religiosity.

Portraying Johnson as a #pious #Christian causes the #public to overlook the way he #manipulates #Christianity to #exert #power.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Racism #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/house-speaker-mike-johnson-republicans-religion-rcna140178

@blogdiva

#Theocracy
#Theofascism
#ChristoFascism
#WhiteNationalism
#Religiosity
#ReligionSpoilsEverything
#OneBookScholars
#Patriarchy
#ReligiousFundamentalism
#MagicalThinking
#BrainWashing

#Greenwash is relatively dumbed down information.

So, why do many people believe in greenwash?

#ClimateChange #psychology #disinformation #politics #business #news #religiosity #faith #hope #money #consumerism #greed #vanity #hubris #ignorance #nonsense