Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities: a cross-cultural investigation

The existential security hypothesis predicts that in the absence of more successful secular institutions, people will be attracted to religion when they are materially insecure. Most assessments, however, employ data sampled at a state-level with a focus on world religions. Using individual-level da...

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Main Authors: Baimel, A, Apicella, CL, Atkinson, Q, Cohen, E
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2022