Believing selves and cognitive dissonance : connecting individual and society via “belief”

dc.contributor.authorBae, Bosco B.
dc.contributor.emailbosco.bae@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-12T05:46:31Z
dc.date.available2016-09-12T05:46:31Z
dc.date.issued2016-07
dc.description.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.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentAnthropology and Archaeologyen_ZA
dc.description.librarianhb2016en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.mdpi.com/journal/religionsen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBae, BB 2016, 'Believing selves and cognitive dissonance : connecting individual and society via “belief”', Religions, vol. 7, art. #86, pp. 1-14.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2077-1444 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.3390/rel7070086
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/56694
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherMDPI Publishingen_ZA
dc.rights© 2016 by the author; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en_ZA
dc.subjectStudy of religionen_ZA
dc.subjectBeliefen_ZA
dc.subjectBelieving selvesen_ZA
dc.subjectCognitive dissonanceen_ZA
dc.subjectIndividualen_ZA
dc.subjectSocietyen_ZA
dc.titleBelieving selves and cognitive dissonance : connecting individual and society via “belief”en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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