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Tie goes to the previous ruling-
Let's tax churches and THEN talk about funding religious schools.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/split-us-supreme-court-blocks-religious-charter-school-2025-05-22/
#SCOTUS #CharterSchools #Taxes #Religiosity

'#Religion and #Religiosity in the Contemporary Global Environment' - an article by the Institute of #Policy Studies (IPS) in 'Policy Perspectives' on #ScienceOpen: https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/polipers.21.2.ra5

Responding to the President on religion - https://youtu.be/ObePfeqlP_U?si=vs8QH2yqwzE3G8g3 #ChristianNationalism #FreedomOFReligion #FreedomFROMReligion #ChurchStateSeparation #religion #DanMcClellan #SecularGovernment #CriticalThinking #USReligiosity #Religiosity

Right-wing authoritarianism linked to perceived threat from minoritized groups, but national context matters https://www.psypost.org/right-wing-authoritarianism-linked-to-perceived-threat-from-minoritized-groups-but-national-context-matters/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #RightWingAuthoritarianism #MinoritizedGroups #SocialContext #AuthoritarianAttitudes #Religiosity

Bio of #Religion, #Anxiety/Fear, #Insulin Resistance | #RobertSapolsky Father-Offspring Interviews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2pj3cj-dRI

Episode 45 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this video include the #biology behind #religiosity variance, including the relevance of anxiety vs. #fear, and #insulinresistance in #type2diabetes.

A thought from back in the day, not so long ago, when people might still have questioned it: "Religiosity & decency are unrelated. Any degree or none of each can co-exist with any degree or none of the other. Neither derives from nor causes the other." #philosophy #religion #religiosity

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jan 11, 2025

https://bit.ly/stc011125

#logging #plantation #biodiversity #Borneo #earthquakes #oil #extraction #model #link #abortion #population #hiring #outflow #economic #hookworm #canine #resistance #benzimidazole #mutation #existential #security #education #urbanicity #religiosity

Modern social conditions are not the cause of decrease in religiosity, study finds https://www.psypost.org/modern-social-conditions-are-not-the-cause-of-decrease-in-religiosity-study-finds/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Religiosity #SocialConditions #Research #ExistentialSecurity #Education

@ElleGray

...so funny.

Also the unironic and serious conviction that the particular religious ideology invoked - has any bearing on the issue.

#Theocracy #religiosity #christofascism #misogyny #patriarchy #cults and #Brainwashing

I need to catch a train to the airport, but let's review some common findings from this year's #IACSR/#IACESR:

#Spirituality seemed somewhat distinct from #religiosity
- Spirituality is perceived as more compatible with caring about and doing #science
- Reflective thinking may predict religiosity more reliably than spirituality

#Ritual
- is not just a religious phenomena
- is preferred differently between #cultures
- seems to help transmit #culture, belief, etc. (perhaps via #imagination

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The program printouts for both the 2024 Atheism Explained? conference IACESR biennial meeting — both in Oxford. Thanks to organizers, speakers, attendees, and hosting facilities! I had a great time.

These two conferences should be congratulated for offering healthy, whole, plant food! I hope this becomes the default at more conferences! (I'll certainly support conferences and institutions that follow suit)

In the #Religiosity and #Thinking session, I'm sharing different aspects of the new #data I presented Wednesday (at #AtheismExplained, see top post in thread):

In addition to the aforementioned findings, we found that #spirituality correlated with #reflection test performance LESS reliably than #religiosity (and #apostasy) did: https://nerdculture.de/@ByrdNick/112683095691417678

On Wednesday, I posted 2 of the other 3 talks in today's session (Omid's and Nori's). So below I'll post only about the new one by Meara Geraty.

An example of a reflection test question.

The two scales: religiosity and spirituality

Both scales seemed to reliable measure one component.

In a large, diverse dataset (N > 5000), reflection test performance predicted religiosity more reliably than it predicted spirituality.

We know financial security predicts less #religiosity in the aggregate, but is this causal?

Martin Lang reported an experiment on U.S. and Polish people indicating that it is.

You can follow Martin on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Martin-Lang-6

#economics #finance #religion #atheism #psychology #stats #causation #games

Martin Lang and the insecurity theory that motivates this experiment

Two experimental conditions (in an economic game): secure and insecure

The religious "condition" — not sure if this was a manipulation or a choice (or both?).

What about #atheism in regions of #Africa?

Dr. Kevin Muriithi Ndereba shared descriptive #stats and quotes from ≅20 people — mostly #religious, but not all #Christian.

What stood out to me:
- #animism has multiple facets (e.g., as #religion vs. as #philosophy)
- at least one person reported no #religious belief despite #belief in a "supreme being"
- some respondents described #charismatic #religiosity as excessive/negative

You can follow Kevin on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin-Ndereba

A relevant paper by Dr. Ndereba from 2023

Some background and motivation for the research

Distribution of religious identity (see also the next slide for a related distribution)

Some information about the diversity of ways religious identity was measured/described

I started Day 2 of #Atheism Explained? in another #Secularization session.

First, highlights of interviews about non-#religiosity in #Estonia from Atko Remmel (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Atko-Remmel)

Then Piotr Paweł Laskowski shared that in an expanded DIM-R dataset (https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2024.2305447) there were — among other things — intermediate relationships between analytic thinking and (lower) odds of #religion in a large sample of people from #Poland — more on this tomorrow, I'm told.

#replication #xPhi #psych

Atko Remmel on intergenerational non-religiosity.

Some info about the sources and variables in the DiMR+ dataset

A logistic regression model predicting self-reported religiosity from about 10 variables.

A sankey diagram showing how levels of education relate to religiosity (in Poland).

Why are so many religious people crazy?

Why are so many crazy people religious?

It is almost as if craziness & religiosity are necessarily co-existent.

#religion #religiosity #philosophy

#TIL #TodayILearned #Religiosity and #Conspiratorial #Beliefs were strongly linked in a Baylor University study

https://news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2021/religiosity-and-conspiratorial-beliefs-linked-baylor-religion-survey-findings

- The intersection of religion and politics makes the discrete religion effect on conspiratorial thinking hard to concisely determine, and we must note that there are lots of different types and expressions of religiosity.

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#newResearch identifies an association between biblical literalism and fear of crime victimization. A thorough report offered by F. Carson Mencken, Kyra N. Neill, Jesse L. DeDeyne, Daniel M. Allen & Amanda C. McGowan explores the details.
#sociology #quantitativeResearch #religiosity @sociology

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00380237.2024.2330467