Reassessing the bounded affinity theory of religion and the paranormal: formative and ongoing religious rituals

IF 0.3 0 RELIGION Culture and Religion Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI:10.1080/14755610.2022.2117218
A. Possamai, Joshua R. Battin, V. Counted, T. Jinks
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ABSTRACT Drawing on the bounded affinity theory – a theory emphasising the shared commonality of religious and paranormal experiences, data from a cross-section of Australian Facebook users were tested. Results reveal that religious Christian individuals who express a strong level of Christian religious practice display less paranormal belief and engage in less paranormal practice than Christian non-practitioners. Since the instrument used in a previous study by Joseph O. Baker, Christopher Bader and F. Carson Mencken may not have accurately measured the multi-dimensional content of paranormal belief (or separately, the physical and meta-physical constructs of paranormal experience) we reassessed the bounded affinity theory using an alternative instrument, with findings generally supporting the previous assumptions of the theory. Study results suggest that strong levels of religious practice significantly diminished belief in a variety of paranormal belief dimensions, and entities, but not all of them. This article addresses this issue applying a Durkheimian approach and provides a more detailed and nuanced support for the bounded affinity theory. It differentiates the beliefs gained from current church attendance (ongoing religious rituals) and past church attendance (formative rituals), which would have socialised Christian believers who are not currently churchgoers through their formative rituals.
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重新评估宗教和超自然现象的有限亲和理论:形成的和持续的宗教仪式
基于有限亲和理论(一种强调宗教和超自然体验的共同共性的理论),我们对来自澳大利亚Facebook用户的横截面数据进行了测试。结果显示,表现出强烈的基督教宗教实践水平的宗教基督徒个体比非基督徒表现出更少的超自然信仰和参与更少的超自然实践。由于Joseph O. Baker、Christopher Bader和F. Carson menken在之前的研究中使用的工具可能无法准确测量超自然信仰的多维内容(或者单独测量超自然体验的物理和元物理结构),我们使用另一种工具重新评估了有限亲和理论,结果总体上支持该理论的先前假设。研究结果表明,强烈的宗教实践水平显著降低了对各种超自然信仰维度和实体的信仰,但不是全部。本文运用涂尔干的方法解决了这个问题,并为有界亲和理论提供了更详细和细致的支持。它区分了从当前的教会出席(持续的宗教仪式)和过去的教会出席(形成性仪式)中获得的信仰,后者将那些目前不去教堂的基督教信徒社会化,通过他们的形成性仪式。
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