Religious instinct
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Religious instinct[1] has been hypothesized by some scholars as a part of human nature.[2][3][4][5] Support for such a position being found in the fact that (as Talcott Parsons put it) "there is no known human society without something which modern social scientists would classify as religion".[6]
Theologians, however, have questioned the utility of an approach to religion by way of a so-called instinct;[7] psychologists have disputed the existence of any such specific instinct;[8] while others would point to the advance of secularization in the modern world as refuting the assumption of a specific religious instinct inevitably leading to the establishment of religion as a fundamental human institution.[9]