Believing Selves and Cognitive Dissonance: Connecting Individual and Society via “Belief”
Journal Title: Religions - Year 2016, Vol 7, Issue 7
Abstract
“Belief” as an analytical tool and critical category of investigation for the study of religion has been a resurging topic of interest. This article discusses the problems of language and practice in the discussion of “belief” and proceeds to map a few of the emergent frameworks, proposed within the past decade, for investigating “belief”. The issue of inconsistency, however, continues to remain a perennial issue that has not been adequately explained. This article argues for the utility and value of the “believing selves” framework, in conjunction with revisionist theories of cognitive dissonance, to advance the claim that beliefs are representations, as well as functions, of cultural history which bind individual and society
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Bosco B. Bae
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- DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/rel7070086
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