Belief in a deity and committed worship of that deity are psychologically distinct

Evidence

And what about the difference between belief in a god and commitment to a god? This might look like hair-splitting, but it is a psychologically important nuance. Commitment implies belief, but one could believe in the existence of a god without being committed to that god. In the Abrahamic tradition, belief and commitment are conflated, but that is just an odd consequence of monotheism, which, despite its spectacular cultural success in the last two millennia, was historically a rarity in the cultures of the world. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 373

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes belief from commitment as distinct psychological states, relevant for parsing Rodrigues’ belief versus his apostasy.
• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s analytical integration: the distinction between Rodrigues’ private belief and public trampling of the fumi-e (observable apostasy destroying commitment, not belief).
• QUESTION: Worth chasing whether apostasy rituals target commitment rather than belief — the fumi-e wouldn’t change Rodrigues’ private belief but would destroy visible commitment, exactly per Norenzayan’s distinction.