BAIMEL, Adam, Coren APICELLA, Quentin ATKINSON, Alex BOLYANATZ, Emma COHEN, Carla HANDLEY, Joseph HENRICH, Eva KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ, Martin LANG, Carolyn LESOGOROL, Sarah MATHEW, Rita MCNAMARA, Cristina MOYA, Ara NORENZAYAN, Caitlyn D PLACEK, Monserrat SOLER, Thomas VARDY, Jonathan WEIGEL, Aiyana WILLARD, Dimitris XYGALATAS and Benjamin PURZYCKI. Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities : a cross-cultural investigation. Religion, Brain & Behavior. ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2022, vol. 12, 1-2, p. 4-17. ISSN 2153-599X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006287.
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Original name Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities : a cross-cultural investigation
Authors BAIMEL, Adam (840 United States of America), Coren APICELLA (840 United States of America), Quentin ATKINSON (554 New Zealand), Alex BOLYANATZ (840 United States of America), Emma COHEN (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Carla HANDLEY (840 United States of America), Joseph HENRICH (840 United States of America), Eva KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Martin LANG (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Carolyn LESOGOROL (840 United States of America), Sarah MATHEW (840 United States of America), Rita MCNAMARA (840 United States of America), Cristina MOYA (840 United States of America), Ara NORENZAYAN (840 United States of America), Caitlyn D PLACEK (840 United States of America), Monserrat SOLER (840 United States of America), Thomas VARDY (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Jonathan WEIGEL (840 United States of America), Aiyana WILLARD (124 Canada), Dimitris XYGALATAS (300 Greece) and Benjamin PURZYCKI (840 United States of America).
Edition Religion, Brain & Behavior, ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2022, 2153-599X.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 60304 Religious studies
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW URL
Impact factor Impact factor: 2.200
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/22:00125646
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006287
UT WoS 000778745700002
Keywords in English Religious commitment; existential insecurity; moralistic gods; cross-cultural
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
The existential security hypothesis predicts that in the absence of more successful secular institutions, people will be attracted to religion when they are materially insecure. Most assessments, however, employ data sampled at a state-level with a focus on world religions. Using individual-level data collected in societies of varied community sizes with diverse religious traditions including animism, shamanism, polytheism, and monotheism, we conducted a systematic cross-cultural test (N = 1820; 14 societies) of the relationship between material insecurity (indexed by food insecurity) and religious commitment (indexed by both beliefs and practices). Moreover, we examined the relationship between material security and individuals’ commitment to two types of deities (moralistic and local), thus providing the first simultaneous test of the existential security hypothesis across co-existing traditions. Our results indicate that while material insecurity is associated with greater commitment to moralistic deities, it predicts less commitment to local deity traditions.
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