Spiritual But Not Religious? Beyond Binary Choices in the Study of Religion

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy T. Ammerman
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual But Not Religious ◽  
Binary Choices

scholarly journals Religious, but Not Spiritual: A Constructive Proposal

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 433
Author(s):  
J. Aaron Simmons
Keyword(s):  
Social Presence ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Spiritual But Not Religious ◽  
Recent Increase

Often the debates in philosophy of religion are quite disconnected from the empirical data gathered in the sociology of religion. This is especially the case regarding the recent increase in prominence of those identifying as “spiritual but not religious” (SBNR) within an American context. In the attempt to bring these two fields into productive conversation, this essay offers a constructive account of the SBNR in terms of what they reject (i.e., their status as “not religious”) and also what they affirm (i.e., their identity as “spiritual”). In brief, the suggestion is that the SBNR do not reject theism or even common “religious” practices, but instead reject a particular mode of “religion” that is grounded in an authoritative and insular social presence. Alternatively, the SBNR at least seem to affirm a notion of “spirituality” that is broadly consistent with the idea found in historical Christian traditions. After surveying the empirical data and offering a new phenomenological analysis of it, the essay concludes with a suggestion that we need a new category—“religious, but not spiritual” (RBNS)—in order best to make sense of how the SBNR signify in relation to specific hermeneutic contexts and sociopolitical frameworks.

Binary choices dynamics with quantum decision

2021 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 102509
Author(s):  
Arianna Dal Forno ◽  
Giorgio Gronchi ◽  
Ugo Merlone
Keyword(s):  
Binary Choices

scholarly journals Corticostriatal Circuits Encode the Subjective Value of Perceived Control

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (12) ◽  
pp. 5049-5060 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kainan S Wang ◽  
Mauricio R Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Control ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Control Option ◽  
Subjective Value ◽  
Binary Choices ◽  
Mere Presence ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Neural Underpinnings ◽  
Evoked Activity

AbstractThe ability to perceive and exercise control over an outcome is both desirable and beneficial to our well-being. It has been shown that animals and humans alike exhibit behavioral bias towards seeking control and that such bias recruits the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and striatum. Yet, this bias remains to be quantitatively captured and studied neurally. Here, we employed a behavioral task to measure the preference for control and characterize its neural underpinnings. Participants made a series of binary choices between having control and no-control over a game for monetary reward. The mere presence of the control option evoked activity in the ventral striatum. Importantly, we manipulated the expected value (EV) of each choice pair to extract the pairing where participants were equally likely to choose either option. The difference in EV between the options at this point of equivalence was inferred as the subjective value of control. Strikingly, perceiving control inflated the reward value of the associated option by 30% and this value inflation was tracked by the vmPFC. Altogether, these results capture the subjective value of perceived control inherent in decision making and highlight the role of corticostriatal circuitry in the perception of control.

Sharing the Burden

2014 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 1014-1018
Author(s):  
Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
The West ◽  
Spiritual But Not Religious ◽  
Church Building ◽  
The Church

Last week, sandwiched in between updates on Beyoncé's trip to the West Coast and sighting of the latest super moon, the Huffington Post featured an article by power preacher Lillian Daniels entitled “Spiritual But Not Religious? Please Stop Boring Me.” Daniels lamented her situation on long plane flights, where she had to endure the stories of fellow travelers who, upon finding out she is a minister, confessed their rejection of religious institutions in favor of finding spirituality in sunsets and walks on the beach. Inevitably, they would present their experience to her as a revelation: “Like people who go to church don't see God in the sunset! Like we are these monastic little hermits who never leave the church building. How lucky we are to have these geniuses inform us that God is in nature.” Daniels' article represents a backlash coming from the institutional end of the spectrum, but her plea for loyalty to religion-in-community was met by many who found her (apparently, according to the comments section) insulting, condescending, and close-minded.

Children’s concept of probability as inferred from their binary choices—revisited

2012 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruma Falk ◽  
Patricia Yudilevich-Assouline ◽  
Adily Elstein
Keyword(s):  
Binary Choices

An auditory oddball brain–computer interface for binary choices

2010 ◽  
Vol 121 (4) ◽  
pp. 516-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Halder ◽  
M. Rea ◽  
R. Andreoni ◽  
F. Nijboer ◽  
E.M. Hammer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Computer Interface ◽  
Computer Interface ◽  
Auditory Oddball ◽  
Binary Choices
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