#Religiosity is mostly unrelated to #Islamophobia, nativism, right-wing authoritarianism, and #populism. But Islamophobia overlaps with both nativism and authoritarianism. So: people who fear immigration and want strict laws/harsh enforcement 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 tend to reject Islam, but not for religious reasons.

@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

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.

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

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

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.