Religion bundles separable traits whose conflict roles must be disaggregated

Evidence

Because the model organism in psychology, economics, and cognitive science is WEIRD, there is a mountain of scientific research on instrumental values. But we know embarrassingly little about sacred values—how they emerge, operate, and influence actions. However, ignoring sacred values, or treating them as if they are a more expensive or extravagant version of material values, as is often done by policymakers and negotiators in the West, not only does not help resolve conflict, it exacerbates it. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 548 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Ritual participation plus perceived threat converts disputed preferences into sacred values. (similarity 0.83)
• Religious ritual participation increases sacred values even on non-religious topics. (similarity 0.83)
• Reducing sacred values to material ones worsens conflict (similarity 0.83)
• Misunderstanding sacred values caused Western policy failures on extremism (similarity 0.83)
• Participation in religious ritual, not broader psychological traits, predicts sacred values. (similarity 0.83)
• Religion is an evolving family-resemblance package, not a natural kind (similarity 0.82)
• Religion drives intergroup conflict through three mutable pathways, not belief alone (similarity 0.82)
• Religion drives conflict through three fluid pathways that also allow it to reduce conflict (similarity 0.82)
• Religion must be decomposed into parts before asking which cause conflict (similarity 0.81)
• Ignoring sacred values in negotiation actively worsens conflicts (similarity 0.81)
• Religion factors into most wars but rarely causes them (similarity 0.81)
• Religiosity predicts sacred values independent of demographics and politics. (similarity 0.81)
• Sacred values resist material incentives and are best countered only by rival sacred values. (similarity 0.81)
• Religious ritual converts secular values into sacred ones that harden conflict (similarity 0.81)
• Participation in religious ritual and perceived group threat jointly make people sacralize preferences. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Religion drives intergroup conflict through three mutable pathways, not belief alone #expands (0.85)
• Reducing sacred values to material ones worsens conflict #expands (0.82) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 548
• Religious participation, not belief, drives support for intergroup conflict #expands (0.82)
• Religious behavior depends on situational context, observable action, and intergroup competition #expands (0.80) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 19
• Religion carries no necessary political meaning but is anchored in tendential historical formations #corroborates (0.78)
• Attributing every social characteristic to religious texts erases contextual factors #corroborates (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 123
• Religious claims overstated the unity of religion and politics in Islam #exemplifies (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 294