Believing, bonding, behaving, and belonging: Measuring the cognitive, emotional, moral, and social dimensions of religiousness across religions and cultures

Saroglou, Vassilis;et.al.
(2019) International Association for Psychology of Religion Conference — Location: Gdansk, Poland (30.August.2019)

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Based on previous theorization on the four basic dimensions of religiousness, Believing, Bonding, Behaving, and Belonging, and corresponding cognitive, emotional, moral, and social motives of religiousness and functions of religion (Saroglou, 2011), we developed a measure and investigated cross-cultural consistency of the four dimensions as well interindividual and cross-cultural variability. Data were collected from 15 countries varying in religious heritage: Christian denominations, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism/Taoism (N = 3,218). Beyond their high interrelation due to the underlying global religiosity, the four dimensions were distinct across cultures and religions, less interrelated in Eastern Asia compared to the West, differentially preferred within different cultural zones, and characterized by distinct features. Believing and bonding underlined spirituality, whereas believing, behaving, and belonging underlined fundamentalism.
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Saroglou, V., & et al. (2019). Believing, bonding, behaving, and belonging: Measuring the cognitive, emotional, moral, and social dimensions of religiousness across religions and cultures. International Association for Psychology of Religion Conference, Gdansk, Poland. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/110116