Scientific knowledge about religion’s role in conflict is strikingly thin

Evidence

Given that religious conflict shapes world events and makes the news headlines every day, you would be forgiven to think that we know a great deal about religion’s role in human conflict. Remarkably, rhetoric and opinion aside, we know very little in terms of hard scientific facts. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 506

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what would a proper scientific accounting of religion-and-conflict actually look like, and who is attempting it?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 506
• XREF: connects to: Evidence for countering violent extremism programming remains thin and methodologically weak. — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 212