Religion's role in prosocial behavior: Myth or reality?

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Religion, spirituality, and altruism (2013, background): “…extent and nature of prosocial behavior. limited and Minimal religious prosociality: targets and costs According to Saroglou et al. (2005; see also Saroglou, 2006a), one reason why the link between religiosity and prosocial personality is modest is that religious prosociality is not…”
Principles of Religious Prosociality: A Review and Reformulation (2010, background): “Saroglou and colleagues note that an inherent aspect to all organized religion is the divisions between groups, and this may restrict prosocial motivation toward members of the religious ingroup (Saroglou, 2006; Saroglou et al., 2005).”
Nonconscious influences of religion on prosociality: A priming study (2007, background): “…measures correlating religiousness with prosociality has provided many interesting results and a rather complex picture (Batson et al., 1993, 2005; Saroglou, 2006) but it also presents some obvious limitations: the explicit measures used in previous studies are subject to self-presentation and…”