Beyond Beliefs: Religions Bind Individuals Into Moral Communities

By Jesse Graham, Jonathan Haidt. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2010

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Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Religion, spirituality, and altruism (2013, neutral): “Religion is also concerned with principles of authority, loyalty, and purity that imply duties and obligations to oneself, to society, or to transcendent entities (Graham & Haidt, 2010).”
Religiosity as Identity: Toward an Understanding of Religion From a Social Identity Perspective (2010, positive): “…a sense of unwavering stability and “solid ground” (Kinnvall, 2004), more so than would be gained from other social identities, perhaps stemming from highly organized support networks (Graham & Haidt, 2010; Lim & Putnam, 2009) or the shared reliance on faith in a “higher power” (Pargament, 2002).”
Religiosity, Political Orientation, and Consequentialist Moral Thinking (2014, positive): “…thinking, disgust sensitivity Growing evidence suggests that political and religious orientation influence the way people approach morality (Graham & Haidt, 2010; Graham, Haidt, & Nosek, 2009; Haidt, 2007; Inbar, Pizarro, Knobe, & Bloom, 2009; Janoff-Bulman, Sheikh, & Baldacci, 2008;…”
Research on religion/spirituality and forgiveness: A meta-analytic review. (2013, neutral): “…Park, & Edmondson, 2012), R/S or theological differences that create interpersonal strain (Exline, Yali, & Sanderson, 2000), and ingroup loyalty/ outgroup derogation as a function either of R/S group identity (Ysseldyk, Matheson, & Anisman, 2010) or moral intuitions (Graham & Haidt, 2010).”
Does employees’ spirituality enhance job performance? The mediating roles of intrinsic motivation and job crafting (2020, positive): “Since many studies have documented a positive link between religion and pro-sociality (Diener et al. 2011; Saroglou et al. 2005; Graham and Haidt 2010; McCullough and Willoughby 2009; Galen 2012a, b), and further that the pro-social behaviour requires resources for self-control, we can theorize…”
Moral Foundations Theory: The Pragmatic Validity of Moral Pluralism (2012, neutral): “Graham and Haidt (2010) describe several intrapersonal concerns related to Sanctity (e.g., prescriptions for treating one’s body as a temple, proscriptions against masturbation and impure thoughts).”
“Lean not on your own understanding”: Belief that morality is founded on divine authority and non-utilitarian moral judgments (2013, positive): “Theorizing by Graham and Haidt (2010) suggests that there may be important differences in the content of religious and non-religious individuals’ “moral foundations,” or the moral values that they tend to emphasize, and that these differential values may explain some important differences in moral…”
Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality (2012, neutral): “Whereas harm and fairness are directly linked to suffering (Ridley, 1998), concerns for in-group, authority, and purity seem to be independent, revolving around group functioning (Graham & Haidt, 2010).”
Principles of Religious Prosociality: A Review and Reformulation (2010, neutral): “…a great deal of theory and research suggests that not only does religiousness fail to reliably predict universal helping behavior (e.g., Batson, Schoenrade, & Ventis, 1993) but also that it is a mistake to even hold such an expectation (e.g., Graham & Haidt, 2010; Saroglou, 2006; Wilson, 2002).”
The role of analytic thinking in moral judgements and values (2014, neutral): “Under this explanation, it is the binding role of the community that explains the association between religiosity and moral behaviour (see also Graham & Haidt, 2010). binds people together, there was a strong positive correlation between binding moral principles and religiosity in the current study.”
Believing, Bonding, Behaving, and Belonging (2011, positive): “Second, religion provides taboos—that is, absolute values that cannot be traded off (Tetlock, Kristel, Elson, Green, & Lerner, 2000) and are often connected with the need for purity and the respect of the divinity (Graham & Haidt, 2010; Guerra & Giner-Sorolla, 2010).”