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<s class="aside-in"><em>mentioned in 2 topics, 8 evergreens, 1 source</em></s>
#### <s class="topic-title">[[religious belief]]</s>
In:: [[functionalism]],
religious belief is meaningfully different that other kinds of [[belief]] as it has a less clear function for [[human survival]].
example of:: [[Belief can motivate dysfunction]]
Instead [[Emile Durkheim]] proposes that [[Religion creates social order through group membership and ritual]]
##### ^dataviews
> [!dataview]+ Related unlinked notes
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> - [[Religion promotes high social control]]
> - [[Religious claims of absolute truth are always insubstantiable]]
> [!dataview]- Other unlinked mentions
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> - [[Darwin's Cathedral by David Sloan Wilson]]
> - [[justified belief]]
> - [[Faith is an abstraction of cognitive dissonance]]
> - [[Religion as a rational bid for supernatural reward]]
> - [[Religion as a solution to existential dread]]
> - [[What is the origin of religion]]
#### Discussion
> ![[10_Sources/books - Darwin's Cathedral#^295490284]]
> ![[10_Sources/books - Darwin's Cathedral#^295490304]]