an article by Beth R. Crisp (Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia; Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) and Adam Dinham (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) published in Social Policy and Administration Volume 53 Issue 7 (December 2019)
Abstract
Health and social care professionals need sufficient religious literacy in order to handle the complexities of religious beliefs and practices, including the growing numbers who identify with other belief systems and those who claim to identify with no religion.
The extent to which the need for religious literacy has been formalised was examined in an analysis of regulatory frameworks for health and social care professionals in the United Kingdom. Although all but one of the regulators make some reference to religion and beliefs, they are silent on the question as to what is meant by religion and beliefs.
Some standards include a requirement not to impose one's own beliefs on others, but there is very little requirement to develop a reflective and self‐critical awareness of one's own stance.
Likewise, some standards refer to knowledge and skills required, but greater specificity is required for these to be meaningful.
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Tuesday, 10 December 2019
Tuesday, 3 January 2017
Mindful Economics: The Production, Consumption, and Value of Beliefs
an article by Roland Bénabou (Princeton University, New Jersey and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto) and Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics and Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse) published in Journal of Economic Perspectives Volume 30 Number 3 (Summer 2016)
Abstract
In this paper, we provide a perspective into the main ideas and findings emerging from the growing literature on motivated beliefs and reasoning. This perspective emphasizes that beliefs often fulfill important psychological and functional needs of the individual.
Economically relevant examples include confidence in ones’ abilities, moral self-esteem, hope and anxiety reduction, social identity, political ideology, and religious faith. People thus hold certain beliefs in part because they attach value to them, as a result of some (usually implicit) tradeoff between accuracy and desirability.
In a sense, we propose to treat beliefs as regular economic goods and assets – which people consume, invest in, reap returns from, and produce, using the informational inputs they receive or have access to. Such beliefs will be resistant to many forms of evidence, with individuals displaying non-Bayesian behaviors such as not wanting to know, wishful thinking, and reality denial.
JEL Classification: D12, D83, D84, Z12, Z13
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Abstract
In this paper, we provide a perspective into the main ideas and findings emerging from the growing literature on motivated beliefs and reasoning. This perspective emphasizes that beliefs often fulfill important psychological and functional needs of the individual.
Economically relevant examples include confidence in ones’ abilities, moral self-esteem, hope and anxiety reduction, social identity, political ideology, and religious faith. People thus hold certain beliefs in part because they attach value to them, as a result of some (usually implicit) tradeoff between accuracy and desirability.
In a sense, we propose to treat beliefs as regular economic goods and assets – which people consume, invest in, reap returns from, and produce, using the informational inputs they receive or have access to. Such beliefs will be resistant to many forms of evidence, with individuals displaying non-Bayesian behaviors such as not wanting to know, wishful thinking, and reality denial.
JEL Classification: D12, D83, D84, Z12, Z13
Full text (PDF)
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