Religion and related morality across cultures
(2019) The Handbook of culture and psychology — ISBN: [9780190679743], 724-785, published
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- This chapter makes, for the first time, a review, synthesis, and interpretation of the relevant findings from recent international, focused cross-cultural, and experimental studies. Both striking quasi-universal features and amazing cultural differences emerge in the ways religion (individual religiosity, religious ideas, and/or religious heritage at the collective level) endorses, shapes, or privileges specific moral preferences regarding a vast spectrum of domains of human activity. The latter include here (a) sexuality, (b) fertility, marriage, and parenting, (c) work- and economy-related attitudes and behavior, (d) various prosocial attitudes and behaviors, and (e) civic attitudes toward democracy, social engagement, environment, and honesty in society. The final discussion focuses on the religious conflict, across cultures, between interpersonal/consequentialist and righteous/deontological morality, and the evolutionary explanations of the, transculturally strong, religion-morality association and of the cultural diversity of religion and its morality.
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Saroglou, V. (2019). Religion and related morality across cultures. In D. Matsumoto & H. C. Hwang (ed.), The Handbook of culture and psychology (pp. 724-785). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190679743.003.0022