Practice-heavy religious traditions dampen supernatural-monitoring concerns and atheist prejudice

Evidence

Adam Cohen and his colleagues point out that unlike in Protestant denominations, in some traditions such as Judaism, religious participation is as important, and sometimes more important, than religious belief. Some of the Orthodox branches of Christianity are similar to Judaism in this regard. It is possible that in these traditions, concerns about supernatural monitoring are dampened and replaced by other mechanisms. Hence in these traditions, there might be comparatively less prejudice against atheists. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 769

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s integration of Baumard et al. on practice vs belief and partner-choice mechanisms—practice-based religions may run on reputational rather than omniscient-punisher dynamics.