Religiosity as Identity: Toward an Understanding of Religion From a Social Identity Perspective
Religiosity as Identity: Toward an Understanding of Religion From a Social Identity Perspective
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作为身份的宗教信仰：从社会身份的角度理解宗教
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
10.8
通讯作者：
H. Anisman
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作者：
Renate Ysseldyk;K. Matheson;H. Anisman
宗教作为一种社会身份，其基础是一套指导性的信仰和符号系统，因此，它应该在塑造心理和社会过程方面发挥独特而强大的功能。宗教认同提供了一种独特的“神圣”世界观和“永恒”的群体成员身份，这是其他社会群体无法比拟的。因此，宗教团体成员身份所提供的显著认知和情感价值，至少可以部分地解释宗教虔诚。一个积极的社会群体的独特性，建立在一个提供认识论和本体论确定性的信仰体系之上，使宗教身份在促进福祉方面具有双重优势。然而，当宗教身份本身因群体间冲突而受到威胁时，这种独特性可能也会产生同样的负面影响。从宗教原教旨主义到无神论的身份审查说明了这种后果。考虑到宗教作为社会身份和信仰体系的双重功能，可能有助于更好地理解其重要性在个人和群体中的差异。
As a social identity anchored in a system of guiding beliefs and symbols, religion ought to serve a uniquely powerful function in shaping psychological and social processes. Religious identification offers a distinctive “sacred” worldview and “eternal” group membership, unmatched by identification with other social groups. Thus, religiosity might be explained, at least partially, by the marked cognitive and emotional value that religious group membership provides. The uniqueness of a positive social group, grounded in a belief system that offers epistemological and ontological certainty, lends religious identity a twofold advantage for the promotion of well-being. However, that uniqueness may have equally negative impacts when religious identity itself is threatened through intergroup conflict. Such consequences are illustrated by an examination of identities ranging from religious fundamentalism to atheism. Consideration of religion’s dual function as a social identity and a belief system may facilitate greater understanding of the variability in its importance across individuals and groups.
DOI：
10.1111/j.1464-0597.2008.00379.x
发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
7.2
作者：
Haslam, S. Alexander;Jetten, Jolanda;Haslam, Catherine
通讯作者：
Haslam, Catherine