ABSTRACT
The religious belief systems include supernatural entities whose very existence documents the possibility of eternal life, and who in many cases have the power to extend that privilege to mortals as well. Drawing on recent anthropological and psychological research, produces an identified set of cross-culturally recurring religious supernatural themes resulted in Supernatural Belief Scale (SBS). Researchers have begun to ask the questions of whether religious people are less death-anxious has enjoyed more scholarly attention. The results have been equivocal, though weakly supportive of the claim that the religious people suffer less anxiety about death. Cohen et al. found that fear of death was negatively related to intrinsic religiosity but positively related to extrinsic religiosity. The research on implicit social cognition, implicit theism, and unconscious emotion opens up the intriguing possibility that there may be a dissociation between explicit and implicit religious beliefs in the face of death.
