Religious ritual makes otherwise secular values sacred and conflicts less tractable

Evidence

Although we still don’t know exactly how, studies show that involvement in religious ritual, as well as religious reminders of ritual, increase the likelihood of seeing otherwise secular values as sacred. Sacred values in turn are known to make conflicts less tractable. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 543

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Medieval sacraments did not graft supernatural authority onto natural functions; Modernist myth use grounds secular values known to lack foundations; Sacred and secular terrorism differ in justification and means (+7 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Medieval sacraments did not graft supernatural authority onto natural functions; Modernist myth use grounds secular values known to lack foundations; Sacred and secular terrorism differ in justification and means (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Religious ritual converts secular values into sacred ones that harden conflict #corroborates (0.98)
• Secular ideologies need quasi-religious rituals to resist collapse. #complicates (0.72) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 275