Understanding Belief:

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" Understanding Belief: "
Carles Salazar

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1072237
Doc. No	:	LA115866
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15709256-12341300‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Carles Salazar
Title & Author	:	Understanding Belief: [Article] : Some Qualitative Evidence\ Carles Salazar
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Empirical Theology
Date	:	2014
Volume/ Issue Number	:	27/2
Page No	:	199–213
Abstract	:	The purpose of this paper is to explore the question of religious belief by bringing in some qualitative evidence about the meaning of religious behaviors and ideas. Whereas mainstream cognitive approaches to the study of belief have traditionally focused their attention on the memorability of religious ideas, the problem of meaning has been somehow left unexamined. New approaches have emphasized the role of the so-called “Credibility-Enhancing Displays” in the actual production of religious beliefs. But still there is no clear explanation as to what makes those displays enhance credibility. With the help of data coming from an ethnographic research conducted in an Irish Catholic community, this paper attempts to address the question of religious belief by turning it into a question of meaning, of the transmission of religious meanings and of the constitution of religious beliefs through meaning-producing practices. The purpose of this paper is to explore the question of religious belief by bringing in some qualitative evidence about the meaning of religious behaviors and ideas. Whereas mainstream cognitive approaches to the study of belief have traditionally focused their attention on the memorability of religious ideas, the problem of meaning has been somehow left unexamined. New approaches have emphasized the role of the so-called “Credibility-Enhancing Displays” in the actual production of religious beliefs. But still there is no clear explanation as to what makes those displays enhance credibility. With the help of data coming from an ethnographic research conducted in an Irish Catholic community, this paper attempts to address the question of religious belief by turning it into a question of meaning, of the transmission of religious meanings and of the constitution of religious beliefs through meaning-producing practices.
Descriptor	:	belief
Descriptor	:	ethnography
Descriptor	:	meaning
Descriptor	:	metonymy
Descriptor	:	ritual
Descriptor	:	symbolism
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15709256-12341300‬