Believing Selves and Cognitive Dissonance: Connecting Individual and Society via Belief
Belief as an analytical tool and critical category of investigation for the study of religion has been a resurging topic of interest. This article discusses the problems of language and practice in the discussion of belief and proceeds to map a few of the emergent frameworks, proposed within the...
| Published in: | Religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
[2016]
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Religions
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| Further subjects: | B
Belief
B Individual B believing selves B Cognitive Dissonance B Society B study of religion |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | Belief as an analytical tool and critical category of investigation for the study of religion has been a resurging topic of interest. This article discusses the problems of language and practice in the discussion of belief and proceeds to map a few of the emergent frameworks, proposed within the past decade, for investigating belief. The issue of inconsistency, however, continues to remain a perennial issue that has not been adequately explained. This article argues for the utility and value of the believing selves framework, in conjunction with revisionist theories of cognitive dissonance, to advance the claim that beliefs are representations, as well as functions, of cultural history which bind individual and society. |
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| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel7070086 |