Religious devotion can prompt recategorizing one’s identity to all of humanity

Evidence

Allport thought that devotion to the essential teachings of one’s religion, teachings of universal tolerance and compassion, could provide a personalityintegrating master motive that would dissolve categories and barriers. In social-identity (Tajfel, 1981) and self-categorization (Turner, 1987) terms, one might say that such devotion both (a) meets esteem needs and (b) prompts recategorization of self away from the level of the group to the level of all humanity, leading one to see outgroup members as brothers and sisters. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2570

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains how intrinsic religiosity maps onto social-identity recategorization theory as a mechanism for dissolving in-group bias.
• XREF: Connects to social identity theory (Tajfel) and self-categorization theory (Turner) as applied mechanisms for prejudice reduction. — connects to: Theistic religious primes activate in-group identity while nontheistic ones activate universalism. — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 28