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About: Faith is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 23178 publications have been published within this topic receiving 223702 citations. The topic is also known as: religious faith & religious belief.


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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: The authors showed that looking out for Number One may require that we look out for others, too, finding evidence in our emotional acts, like the blush on telling a lie, they can serve as hard-to-fake signals of a commitment to social values.
Abstract: The "Me" generation has justified itself by appealing to social scientists who see selfishness as the only rational basis for action. But what are we to make of selfless acts in business, personal life, even politics? In this provocative book, Robert Frank shows us that looking out for Number One may require that we look out for others, too. He finds his evidence in our emotional acts. Like the blush on telling a lie, they can serve as hard-to-fake signals of a commitment to social values. We recognize these signs; we know people we trust; and if we can identify trustworthy fellows we can reject those who do not merit our faith.

2,082 citations

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Morton Deutsch1
TL;DR: The concept of trust and its related concepts are vital to the understanding both of social life and of personality development as mentioned in this paper, and yet an examination of a half-dozen or more of the leading textbooks in social psychology (e.g., texts by Cartwright and Zander, Homans, Krech and Crutchfield, Lewin, Lindsey, Newcomb) reveals that trust does not appear in any of their indexes.
Abstract: Whenever philosophers, poets, statesmen, or theologians have written about man's relationship to his fellow man, to nature, or to animals, the phenomena of trust and betrayal, faith and suspicion, responsibility and irresponsibility, have been discussed. The significance of the phenomena of trust and suspicion in human life is attested to not only by past preoccupations but also by current concerns. Discussion of such problems as the armaments race, mental illness, the "hidden persuaders," and juvenile delinquency frequently employ such terms as "trust," "suspicion," "betrayal," "faith." Past preoccupations and current concerns make it apparent that the concept of "trust" and its related concepts are vital to the understanding both of social life and of personality development. Yet an examination of a half-dozen or more of the leading textbooks in social psychology (e.g., texts by Cartwright and Zander, Homans, Krech and Crutchfield, Lewin, Lindsey, Newcomb) reveals that the word "trust" does not appear in any of their indexes. So far as we know, the research summarized in this paper represents the first attempt to investigate experimentally the phenomena of trust.

2,006 citations

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William James1
01 Jan 1902
TL;DR: The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is William James's classic survey of religious belief in its most personal, and often its most heterodox, aspects as discussed by the authors, which stands at a unique moment in the relationship between belief and culture.
Abstract: 'By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots.' The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is William James's classic survey of religious belief in its most personal, and often its most heterodox, aspects. Asking questions such as how we define evil to ourselves, the difference between a healthy and a divided mind, the value of saintly behaviour, and what animates and characterizes the mental landscape of sudden conversion, James's masterpiece stands at a unique moment in the relationship between belief and culture. Faith in institutional religion and dogmatic theology was fading away, and the search for an authentic religion rooted in personality and subjectivity was a project conducted as an urgent necessity. With psychological insight, philosophical rigour, and a determination not to jump to the conclusion that in tracing religion's mental causes we necessarily diminish its truth or value, in the Varieties James wrote a truly foundational text for modern belief. Matthew Bradley's wide-ranging new edition examines the ideas that continue to fuel modern debates on atheism and faith. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

1,830 citations

Book
01 Jan 1999
TL;DR: The authors discuss hope in place of knowledge, a version of pragmatism: truth without correspondence to reality, a world without substances or essences ethics without principles, and the banality of pragmaticism and the poetry of justice.
Abstract: Part 1 Autobiographical: Trotsky and the wild orchids. Part 2 Hope in place of knowledge - a version of pragmatism: truth without correspondence to reality a world without substances or essences ethics without principles. Part 3 Some applications of pragmatism: the banality of pragmatism and the poetry of justice pragmatism and law - a response to David Luban education as socialization and as individualization the humanistic intellectual - eleven theses the pragmatist's progress - Umberto Eco on interpretation religious faith, intellectual responsibility and romance religion as conversation-stopper Thomas Kuhn, rocks and the laws of physics on Hiedegger's Nazism. Part 4 Politics: failed prophecies, glorious hopes a spectre is haunting the intellectuals - Derrida on Marx love and money globalization, the politics and identity and social hope. Part 5 Contemporary America: looking backwards from the year 2096 the unpatriotic academy back to class politics.

1,354 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20245
20232,393
20225,848
2021519
2020634
2019716