Construct your Own Religion and explain why it would be flourish using relevant religious based psychological theory and research.

Construct your Own Religion and explain why it would be flourish using relevant religious based psychological theory and research

  • Word limit: 2,500 words. This maximum does not include the Reference list.

 

What is the core or fundamental aspects of religion? What makes a religion successful?

Your task is to construct your own religion – a religion that would be successful and flourish. And explain why the religion will be successful and support it with religious based psychological research and theory.

Please try to include these theory in the essay.

  • Coalitional Commitment Hypothesis
  • Supernatural punishment hypothesis
  • Costly signaling theory

 

How would you craft your religion to ensure that it is successful? When devising your religion make sure you answer the following questions, and support ALL your decisions with evidence from psychological science:

  1. What is the name of your religion and how did it historically come about?
  2. How is your religion structured or organized?
  3. What rituals and practices do adherents of your religion engage in?
  4. What behaviors does your religion expect from its adherents?
  5. What beliefs do practitioners of your religion endorse and adhere to?

 

Make sure to answer these questions and clearly demonstrate how the various aspects of your religion promote its flourishing and support your claims with arguments and evidence from psychological science! Alternatively, you might wish to argue that your new religion will not flourish. In this case, you still need to support your arguments with evidence from psychological science!

  • Make sure the arguments and content reflect a deep grasp of psychological approaches to religion
  • and are empirically supported with evidence and citations.
  • Please include a complete list of references

 

Referencing:

Within the essay, you should include citations in-text as usual and provide a standard reference section at the end in APA format (6 or 7).