The rationality of faith and the benefits of religion

Ballard, Brian

doi:10.1007/s11153-016-9599-5

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“…Why religion has become widely used as a tool (Ballard, 2017). Conflict is a relationship that develops between two or more parties who have or think that they have incompatible goals.…”

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Religious Risks as a Threat to State Security in Interconfessional Regions

Silayeva¹

2017

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This paper is devoted to the study of religious risks, which create a direct or indirect possibility of inflicting damage to both an individual and a multi-confessional state. Particular attention is paid to the crisis of religious identity and the growth of proselytism. The paper involves analysis of the consequences of globalization, religious conflicts and religious migration. Various technologies used by external forces to form new values amid complex socio-political processes were also considered. To study the stated topic, a synthetic approach was used to identify the most significant directions of socio-political changes through studying the shifts in the system of value and behavioral patterns of both believers and neophytes that can cause an increase in religious tension. In the course of the research, the author came to the conclusion that religious risks develop under the influence of certain conditions and factors often created and used purposefully to demonstrate the religious diversity of the internally contradictory integrity of a multi-confessional state, deepen social inequality and exacerbate socio-political tensions caused by a political-ideological confrontation and identity differences. The success of external forces in the situation destabilization is largely due to an incorrect assessment of threats. In order to prevent this, it is necessary to rethink the role of religion in the context of globalization and rapid socio-political transformation, as well as the religious factor in explanatory models of social development.

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“…Why religion has become widely used as a tool (Ballard, 2017). Conflict is a relationship that develops between two or more parties who have or think that they have incompatible goals.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Religious Risks as a Threat to State Security in Interconfessional Regions

Silayeva¹

2017

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“…13 In other words, if one believes in God because of Pascal's wager (either directly or via taking steps to induce belief), then one demonstrates genuine faith. While this raises the question of whether believing in God for this reason could be epistemically rational-because if not, it would appear that whatever faith is demonstrated is importantly defective-I've argued that taking the doxastic wager can be epistemically (not merely practically) rational (see Jackson forthcoming-b; see also Ballard [2017]).…”

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Faithfully Taking Pascal’s Wager

Jackson

2023

The Monist

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I examine the relationship between taking Pascal’s wager, faith, and hope. First, I argue that many who take Pascal’s wager have genuine faith that God exists. The person of faith and the wagerer have several things in common, including a commitment to God and positive cognitive and conative attitudes toward God’s existence. If one’s credences in theism are too low to have faith, I argue that the wagerer can still hope that God exists, another commitment-justifying theological virtue. I conclude with two upshots of the argument, including how it provides responses to common objections to Pascal’s wager.

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Faith is weakly positive

Jackson

2024

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The rationality of faith and the benefits of religion

Cited by 5 publications

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Religious Risks as a Threat to State Security in Interconfessional Regions

Religious Risks as a Threat to State Security in Interconfessional Regions

Faithfully Taking Pascal’s Wager

Faith is weakly positive

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