Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities : a cross-cultural investigation

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F22%3A00125646" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/22:00125646 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006287" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006287</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006287" target="_blank" >10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006287</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities : a cross-cultural investigation

Original language description

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.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60304 - Religious studies

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Religion, Brain & Behavior

ISSN

2153-599X

e-ISSN

2153-5981

Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

4-17

UT code for WoS article

000778745700002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85128338432