id
	13373
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/13373
Resource template
	Conference Paper
Resource class
	fabio:ConferencePaper
Title
	Towards an Ontology of Religious and Spiritual Belief
Creator
	Schulz, Stefan
	Jansen, Ludger
Publisher
	IOS Press
Date
	2018
Language
	eng
Abstract
	Realist ontologies claim to represent what exists. However, human behaviour and culture is deeply influenced by religious and spiritual belief, whose veracity is highly controversial. Such beliefs are nevertheless known to have substantial impact on well-being, social behaviour, health and disease. It is therefore desirable to be able to represent beliefs within a principled ontology using the Web Ontology Language (OWL) as a standardised representation language. This paper demonstrates how a realist ontology, expressed in description logics, can deal with such entities without requiring consensus about their existence in reality. We present several ontology design patterns which allow for taxonomically arranging elements of religious or spiritual belief systems. This provides a framework on which data on particular beliefs can be better standardised for research in humanities, social research and life sciences.
Is Part Of
	Proceedings of the 10 th International Conference (FOIS 2018)
Spatial Coverage
	Amsterdam
Editor
	Borgo, Stefano
	Hitzler, Pascal
	Kutz, Oliver
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-910-2-253
Pages
	253-260
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/H9MGB4J6/item-list

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