Religious fanaticism
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'''Religious fanaticism''' is [[fanaticism]] associated with a [[religion]].
==Correlations==
Religious fanaticism has been shown to be [[correlation|correlated]] with [[orthodoxy]] and the self-importance of the [[belief]] to the individual. It is inversely correlated with [[consciousness]] of [[ambivalence]].<ref name=Corr>{{citation|title=Dimensions and Correlates of Religious Ideologies|author=Snell Putney, Russell Middleton|journal=Social Forces|Volume=39|Number= 4|date=May, 1961|pages=285-290|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|url=http://www.jstor.org/pss/2573423}}</ref>
These attitudes are related to [[personality]] attributes such as [[authoritarianism]], [[conservatism]] and concern for [[status]]. They are also associated with general social characteristics such as [[gender]], [[location]] and [[community]] size.<ref name=Corr/>
==Spirituality==
Some devoutly religious people seek intense [[spirituality]] and so seek to deny themselves the pleasures and temptations of the flesh by means of [[asceticism]], [[scourging]] and even [[self-mutilation]].<ref>{{citation|title=Psychiatric Evaluation of a "Monk" Requesting Castration|author=Laura Weiss Roberts, Michael Hollifield, Teresita McCarty|journal=The American Journal of Psychiatry|number=155|pages=415-420|date=March 1998|url=http://www.mgr.org/fanmonk.html}}</ref>
==Impact==
In his book [[The God Delusion]], [[Richard Dawkins]] argues that religious fanatics have a major impact on the world.<ref name=Dawkins>{{cite book|author=Richard Dawkins|title=The God Delusion|publisher=Black Swan|year=2007|pages=13-22}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Religious behaviour and experience]]
[[it:Fanatismo religioso]]
[[sv:Religiƶs fanatism]]