Culture, Personality, and the Psychology of Religion

Gerard Saucier

Culture, Personality, and the Psychology of Religion

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Gerard Saucier University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon USA

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Pages:: 1–92

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004522831_002

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Culture and personality are deeply related. This book articulates their interface, and new insights regarding the psychology of religion and spirituality. Rather than making assumptions of cultural homogeneity that promote stereotyping, a distributive model of culture assumes hetereogeneity, linking the otherwise separate compartments of culture and personality. Personality variation maps cultural non-uniformity, but variation in mindset (attitudes, beliefs, values) does so more directly. Studies of isms concepts embedded in natural language demonstrate that matters of religion and spirituality make up a substantial fraction of culture-relevant mindset, and empirical evidence shows these have a large effect-size contribution to cultural differences between nations around the globe. They involve a meaning-in-life domain of culture, contrasting with a domain of material culture. These domains are differentially emphasized across cultures. Additional domains involving social/moral rules and social prestige/rank/status can be deduced; religiousness and mysticism differ generally (but not inevitably) in their association with moral codes.

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Culture, Personality, and the Psychology of Religion

Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences and Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and Psychology

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004522831

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 22 Jun 2022

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