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  1. A Rejoinder to Hart,'.Belief Faith & Religious Truth - 1994 - Philosophy and Theology 8 (3):257-266.
     
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    Religious beliefs in public administration and behaviour surrounding abortion decriminalisation in COVID-19 era.Cruz García Lirios, Gilberto Bermúdez-Ruíz, Tirso Javier Hernandez Gracia, Juan Mansilla Sepúlveda, Victor Hugo Meriño Cordoba & Claudia Huaiquián Billeke - 2023 - HTS Theological Studies 79 (1):7.
    In the context of reproductive health, policies focused on decriminalising abortion that resulted in religious beliefs, attitudes and behaviours being affected. The main purpose of this article was to identify the religious beliefs of abortion in the emergency situations such as COVID-19. Although there is no general consensus regarding abortion, there is almost ‘general opposition to causing harm to life’ in most religions. In the current study, 28 indicators and four factors (seven for each factor) related (...)
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    Religious belief and the will.Louis P. Pojman - 1986 - New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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    Can religious beliefs be justified pragmatically?C. Behan McCullagh - 2007 - Sophia 46 (1):21-34.
    One cannot prove the truth of theological statement, but perhaps one can justify believing them because of the good consequences of doing so. It is irrational to believe statements of which there are good reasons to think false, but those of which there is some, albeit inconclusive, evidence can be believed for pragmatic reasons. However, in the interest of simplicity, it must not be possible to achieve those good consequences without such faith. John Bishop and others have argued that one (...)
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    Is Religious Belief a Kind of Belief?Tim Crane - 2023 - Neue Zeitschrift für Systematicsche Theologie Und Religionsphilosophie 65 (4):414-429.
    This paper discusses the familiar question of whether expressions of faith or conviction offered by religious believers really express their beliefs, in the standard sense of ‘belief’ used in philosophy and psychology. Some hold that these expressions do not express genuine beliefs because they do not meet the standards of rationality, coherence and integration which govern beliefs. So they must serve some other function. But this picture of ‘genuine belief’ is inadequate, for reasons independent of the (...)
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    Rorty, Religious Beliefs, and Pragmatism.James Flaherty - 2005 - International Philosophical Quarterly 45 (2):175-185.
    This paper attempts to examine some of Rorty’s recent writings on religious beliefs. Two claims stand at the core of these texts: (1) that religious beliefs are “private projects” and (2) that those who maintain such beliefs are not intellectually responsible for them because of their essentially private character. Other commentators on Rorty have challenged one or the other of these claims by utilizing resources outside the pragmatic tradition. But since Rorty typically allies himself with (...)
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    Religious Beliefs and Experiences of Protestant Christian Immigrants in Finland: An Integrating or Alienating Experience?Richard Ondicho Otiso - 2020 - European Journal of Philosophy Culture and Religion 4 (1):49-60.
    The contemporary Finland is more culturally diverse than previous years thanks to increased international migration. A large number of immigrants entering Finland today are religious in one way or another. This article is a case study of religious beliefs and experiences of protestant Christian immigrants in Finland with the aim of finding out the personal feelings of immigrants towards the Finnish society. A comparative analysis of Protestant Christian immigrants’ experiences in both the host country and country of (...)
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    Religious Belief and Unbelief.Stephen T. Davis - 2006 - In Christian Philosophical Theology. New York: Oxford University Press UK.
    According to the Christian faith, the reason why certain people do not believe in God is willful unbelief, i.e., spiritual blindness. Christians hold that God is ultimate reality and that God makes covenants with human beings. People become convinced of God’s presence through the inward testimony of the Holy Spirit, although natural theology can show that religious belief is warranted. Belief in God, even if it is based on private evidence, can be rational.
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  9. Should religious beliefs be allowed to stonewall a secular approach to withdrawing and withholding treatment in children?Joe Brierley, Jim Linthicum & Andy Petros - 2013 - Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (9):573-577.
    Religion is an important element of end-of-life care on the paediatric intensive care unit with religious belief providing support for many families and for some staff. However, religious claims used by families to challenge cessation of aggressive therapies considered futile and burdensome by a wide range of medical and lay people can cause considerable problems and be very difficult to resolve. While it is vital to support families in such difficult times, we are increasingly concerned that deeply held (...)
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    Religious Belief, Corporate Philanthropy, and Political Involvement of Entrepreneurs in Chinese Family Firms.Xingqiang Du - 2017 - Journal of Business Ethics 142 (2):385-406.
    This study examines whether religious belief influences an entrepreneur’s political involvement and further explores the moderating role of corporate philanthropy. Using the data from the 2008 national survey of Chinese family firms, my study provides strong evidence to show that the likelihood of political involvement is significantly higher for entrepreneurs with religious beliefs than for their counterparts, suggesting that religious entrepreneurs in Chinese family firms are more likely to participate in political affairs. This finding echoes the (...)
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  11. (1 other version)Religious Belief and Religious Skepticism.Gary Gutting - 1984 - Philosophy 59 (230):544-545.
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    The Influence of Religious Belief, Islamic Work Ethics and Islamic Leadership on Performance: Exploring Mediating Role of Employee Engagement.Vimala Venugopal Muthuswamy & M. Umarani - 2023 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 15 (3):216-238.
    The primary objective of this research is to investigate the impact of organizational culture and various religious factors, such as religious belief, Islamic Leadership Justice, and Islamic work ethics, on job performance with employee engagement as a mediating factor. The study focuses on the workforce within the SME sector as the target population. Data were gathered from respondents through a questionnaire developed based on an extensive review of existing literature. The questionnaire was distributed utilizing the convenience sampling technique, (...)
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    Religious Belief-Related Factors Enhance the Impact of Soundscapes in Han Chinese Buddhist Temples on Mental Health.Dongxu Zhang, Chunxiao Kong, Mei Zhang & Jian Kang - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 12.
    In contemporary society, mental health issues have received increasing attention. Moreover, how people perceive the acoustic environment affects mental health. In religious places, the unique religious soundscape, composed of the acoustic environment and sounds, has an obvious effect on mental health. In China, Han Chinese Buddhism has a long history and is currently the religion with the largest number of believers. The soundscape of temples has always been an important component of creating a Buddhist atmosphere. For this study, (...)
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    Religious beliefs are factual beliefs: Content does not correlate with context sensitivity.Neil Levy - 2017 - Cognition 161 (C):109-116.
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    Religious Belief and Religious Skepticism.Gary Gutting - 1982 - University of Notre Dame Press.
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    Ecological variability and religious beliefs.Adam B. Cohen, Douglas T. Kenrick & Yexin Jessica Li - 2006 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29 (5):468-468.
    Religious beliefs, including those about an afterlife and omniscient spiritual beings, vary across cultures. We theorize that such variations may be predictably linked to ecological variations, just as differences in mating strategies covary with resource distribution. Perhaps beliefs in a soul or afterlife are more common when resources are unpredictable, and life is brutal and short.
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    (1 other version)Religious Beliefs and Modern Chinese Culture Part II: The Religious Spirit of Confucianism.T'ang Chün-I. - 1973 - Contemporary Chinese Thought 5 (1):48-85.
    As the title suggests, in this part of the essay I am going to discuss in brief the religious spirit of Confucianism.
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    Religious belief as acquired second nature.Hans Van Eyghen - 2020 - Zygon 55 (1):185-206.
    Multiple authors in cognitive science of religion (CSR) argue that there is something about the human mind that disposes it to form religious beliefs. The dispositions would result from the internal architecture of the mind. In this article, I will argue that this disposition can be explained by various forms of (cultural) learning and not by the internal architecture of the mind. For my argument, I draw on new developments in predictive processing. I argue that CSR theories argue (...)
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  19. Rational Religious Beliefs Without Natural Reason? A Critical Study of Alvin Plantinga Position.Ewa Odoj - 2024 - Rocznik Filozoficzny Ignatianum 30 (2):159-180.
    According to an intuition highly popular in Western world, beliefs, includ-ing religious beliefs, must be supported by sufficient evidence in order to be held in a rational (or justified) way (evidentialism). Plantinga for-mulates his own view about the rationality of religious beliefs, which he considers as opposite to the traditional view. The central thesis of his position is that religious beliefs are perfectly rational when believed in the basic way, that is without any (...)
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    Should Religious Beliefs Be Exempt from the Duty to Think Critically?Donald Hatcher - 2014 - Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 29 (1):17-31.
    Recently, there have been at least five best sellers critical of religion and religious belief. It seems, at least among readers in the U.S., that there is great interest in questions about the rationality of religious belief. Ironically, critical thinking texts seldom examine the topic. After reviewing a series of previous arguments that people have an ethical duty to think critically, this paper will evaluate a number of arguments intended to exempt religious belief from the sorts of (...)
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  21. Do religiousbeliefs” respond to evidence?Neil Van Leeuwen - 2017 - Philosophical Explorations 20 (sup1):52-72.
    Some examples suggest that religious credences respond to evidence. Other examples suggest they are wildly unresponsive. So the examples taken together suggest there is a puzzle about whether descriptive religious attitudes respond to evidence or not. I argue for a solution to this puzzle according to which religious credences are characteristically not responsive to evidence; that is, they do not tend to be extinguished by contrary evidence. And when they appear to be responsive, it is because the (...)
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  22. Religious Beliefs of American Scientists.Edward Leroy Long - 1952
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    Business Dilemmas and Religious Belief: An Explorative Study among Dutch Executives.Johan Graafland, Muel Kaptein & Corrie Mazereeuw-van der Duijn Schouten - 2006 - Journal of Business Ethics 66 (1):53-70.
    This paper explores the relationship between religious belief and the dilemmas Dutch executives confront in daily business practice. We find that the frequency with which dilemmas arise is directly related to various aspects of religious belief, such as the belief in a transcendental being and the intensity of religious practice. Despite this relationship, only 17% of the dilemmas examined involve a religious standard. Most dilemmas originate from a conflict between moral and practical standards. We also find (...)
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  24. Does religious belief impact philosophical analysis?Kevin P. Tobia - 2016 - Religion, Brain and Behavior 6 (1):56-66.
    One popular conception of natural theology holds that certain purely rational arguments are insulated from empirical inquiry and independently establish conclusions that provide evidence, justification, or proof of God’s existence. Yet, some raise suspicions that philosophers and theologians’ personal religious beliefs inappropriately affect these kinds of arguments. I present an experimental test of whether philosophers and theologians’ argument analysis is influenced by religious commitments. The empirical findings suggest religious belief affects philosophical analysis and offer a challenge (...)
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  25. Challenges to Moral and Religious Belief: Disagreement and Evolution.Michael Bergmann & Patrick Kain (eds.) - 2014 - Oxford ; New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    Challenges to Moral and Religious Belief contains fourteen original essays by philosophers, theologians, and social scientists on challenges to moral and religious belief from disagreement and evolution. Three main questions are addressed: Can one reasonably maintain one's moral and religious beliefs in the face of interpersonal disagreement with intellectual peers? Does disagreement about morality between a religious belief source, such as a sacred text, and a non-religious belief source, such as a society's moral intuitions, (...)
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  26. Religious Belief and Freedom of Expression: Is Offensiveness Really the Issue?Peter Jones - 2011 - Res Publica 17 (1):75-90.
    An objection frequently brought against critical or satirical expressions, especially when these target religions, is that they are ‘offensive’. In this article, I indicate why the existence of diverse and conflicting beliefs gives people an incentive to formulate their complaints in the language of offence. But I also cast doubt on whether people, in saying they are offended really mean to present that as the foundation of their complaint and, if they do, whether their complaint should weigh with us. (...)
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    19 Religious Belief and Attitudes about Science in the United States.Scott Keeter, Gregory Smith & David Masci - 2012 - In Martin W. Bauer, Rajesh Shukla & Nick Allum (eds.), The culture of science: how the public relates to science across the globe. New York: Routledge. pp. 15--336.
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    Foundation of religious beliefs after foundationalism: Wittgenstein between Nielsen and Phillips: Yong Huang.Yong Huang - 1995 - Religious Studies 31 (2):251-267.
    Religious beliefs have often been taken either as absolutely foundational to all others or as ultimately founded on something else. This essay starts with an endorsement of the contemporary critique of foundationalism but sets its task as to search for the foundation of religious belief after foundationalism. In its third and main part, it argues for a Wittgensteinian reflective equilibrium as such a foundation. In this reflective equilibrium, religious beliefs are no more and no less (...)
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  29. Religious Belief as 'Properly Basic'.Alvin Plantinga - 2000 - In Brian Davies (ed.), Philosophy of religion: a guide and anthology. New York: Oxford University Press.
     
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    Rational Religious Belief without Arguments.Michael Bergmann - 2014 - In Michael C. Rea & Louis P. Pojman (eds.), Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology, 7th edition. Stamford, CT: Cengage. pp. 534-549.
    It is commonly thought that belief in God couldn’t be rational unless it is held on the basis of arguments. But is that right? Could there be rational religious belief without arguments? For the past few decades, a prominent position within the philosophy of religion literature is that belief in God can be rational even if it isn’t based on any arguments. This position is often called ‘Reformed Epistemology’ to signify its roots in the writings of John Calvin (1509-64), (...)
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    The relationship between religious beliefs and coping with the stress of COVID-19.Aleksandr Petrov, Andrey Poltarykhin, Natalia Alekhina, Sergey Nikiforov & Sarbinaz Gayazova - 2021 - HTS Theological Studies 77 (1).
    Recently, we have faced the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 in the world, which has attracted the attention of all people. Stress has become a word familiar to all people. The stressors of life are relatively clear and some of them cannot be eliminated by humans. One of the stressors in the life of humans is the COVID-19 pandemic. Doctors believe that the virus is controllable but its prevalence is quicker and deadlier than other viruses. In addition, the virus (...)
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    Do Religious Beliefs Affect Conduct?G. K. Chesterton - 1988 - The Chesterton Review 14 (2):181-182.
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  33. Can Religious Belief Be Explained Away? Reasons and Causes of Religious Belief.Justin Barrett, David Leech & Aku Visala - 2010 - In Ulrich J. Frey (ed.), The Nature of God ––– Evolution and Religion. Tectum. pp. 1--75.
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    Rationality, Religious Belief, and Shaping Dispositions: Replies to Carruth, Gatley, Levy, Kotzee and Rocha.John Tillson - 2021 - Studies in Philosophy and Education 41 (1):135-149.
  35. (1 other version)Religious Belief.C. B. Martin - 1959 - Philosophy 36 (138):381-382.
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  36. Religious Belief in America: A New Pole.P. Kurtz - 1996 - Free Inquiry 16 (3):40.
     
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  37. Religious Belief as Basic.Alvin Plantinga - 1999 - In Eleonore Stump & Michael J. Murray (eds.), Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 6--285.
  38. Religious belief without evidence.Alvin Plantinga - 1986 - In Joseph Runzo, Craig K. Ihara & Alvin Plantinga (eds.), Religious experience and religious belief: essays in the epistemology of religion. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
  39. Rational religious belief.Richard Swinburne - 2009 - In Kevin Timpe (ed.), Arguing about religion. New York: Routledge. pp. 40.
     
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  40. Religious Belief is not Natural. Why cognitive science of religion does not show that religious belief is rational.Hans Van Eyghen - 2016 - Studia Humana 5 (4):34-44.
    It is widely acknowledged that the new emerging discipline cognitive science of religion has a bearing on how to think about the epistemic status of religious beliefs. Both defenders and opponents of the rationality of religious belief have used cognitive theories of religion to argue for their point. This paper will look at the defender-side of the debate. I will discuss an often used argument in favor of the trustworthiness of religious beliefs, stating that cognitive (...)
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  41. A religious belief.Peter Genco & Alex Blum - 2014 - Annales Philosophici 7:25-25.
    We discuss some of the consequences of the belief that while God keeps His promises under every possible circumstance He can nevertheless break them. One interesting consequence is that no proof is possible for the proposition that God keeps His promises. We also point out that for this believer, necessity and possibility cannot be reformulated as truth in all and some possible worlds, respectively.
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  42. Religious Belief and Conceptual Opacity.C. Mason Myers - 1966 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 47 (3):399.
     
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    Truth, knowledge, and religious belief.John Hendry - 2020 - Think 19 (54):69-80.
    Religious beliefs are often criticized as lacking the rational justification we expect of factual knowledge claims. In this article I suggest that while religious believers do often claim ‘knowledge’ of the ‘truth’ they typically use these words in traditional, and indeed still current, senses that are quite different from the senses assumed both by their atheist critics and by standard theories of knowledge. The claims are not primarily claims of factual accuracy, subject to the norms of what (...)
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    Religious beliefs, addiction tendency, sexual dysfunction and intention to divorce among Muslim couples.Andrés Alexis Ramírez-Coronel, Abed Mahdavi, Wamaungo Juma Abdu, Rahmawati Azis, Ammar Abdel Amir Al-Salami, Ria Margiana, Forqan Ali Hussein Al-Khafaji & Narmin Beheshtizadeh - 2023 - HTS Theological Studies 79 (1):6.
    Described as a gem in Islam, intellect can lead all individual and social behaviours towards balance, appeal and godliness. Given the utmost importance of protecting intellect in this divine religion, everything from eating and drinking to reading, listening and entertainment is thus considered haram [ viz. remains prohibited] if it makes threats to the health of mind and soul. In general, narcotics and substance abuse in all forms can have crushing and all-encompassing effects, that is, inflict heavy blows on the (...)
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    My Religious Beliefs.Charles Hartshorne - 2011 - Process Studies 40 (1):154-161.
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    Religious Belief and Self‐Deception.Adèle Mercier - 2009 - In Russell Blackford & Udo Schüklenk (eds.), 50 Voices of Disbelief. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 41–47.
  47. Religious belief and philosophical analysis.Derek A. McDougall - 1972 - Mind 81 (324):519-532.
    A discussion of how making a decision about religious belief places this kind of belief in a category which distinguishes it from 'belief in other minds' or 'belief in an external world'. This has important consequences for a philosophical approach to religious belief.
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    Religious beliefs and psychiatric beliefs: Worlds apart and perhaps best left that way.Mona Gupta - 2010 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 17 (3):205-207.
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    Religious Belief and Religious Skepticism.Mary T. Clark - 1984 - Teaching Philosophy 7 (3):273-275.
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    The religious beliefs of Thomas Paine.Ira M. Thompson - 1965 - New York,: Vantage Press.
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