Superstition | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: Subhajit Sahu
Date: 2018-12-07

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Superstition


00:00:52 1 Etymology
00:03:22 2 Superstition and religion
00:05:26 3 Superstition and psychology
00:05:36 3.1 Origins
00:05:44 3.1.1 Behaviorism perspective
00:07:53 3.1.2 Evolutionary/cognitive perspective
00:08:53 3.2 Mechanisms
00:10:19 3.3 Occurrence
00:11:48 4 Superstition and politics
00:12:10 5 Opposition to superstition
00:14:08 6 See also



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SUMMARY
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Superstition is a pejorative term for any belief or practice that is considered irrational: for example, if it arises from ignorance, a misunderstanding of science or causality, a positive belief in fate or magic, or fear of that which is unknown. "Superstition" also refers to actions arising from irrationality.

The word superstition is often used to refer to a religion not practiced by the majority of a given society regardless of whether the prevailing religion contains alleged superstitions. It is also commonly applied to beliefs and practices surrounding luck, prophecy, and certain spiritual beings, particularly the belief that future events can be foretold by specific (apparently) unrelated prior events.Due to the pejorative implications of the term, items referred to in common parlance as superstition are commonly referred to as folk belief in folkloristics.