These include: The mercy and justice of God, the devil, religious rituals, and effective or ineffective prayers.
[2] A miracle is an example of an event that is often attributed to supernatural causality due to the lack of natural or scientific explanation.
[1] The Religious Attribution process gives individuals a greater sense of control over events than naturalistic attributions when there are threats to life and security- the simple idea of having faith gives people a greater sense of control over outcomes.
Religious attribution also gives individuals self-esteem in the form of personal security, often including a general side toward self-enhancement.
[4] Situational factors that combine and intertwine play a significant role in the prevalence and use of religious attribution.
Contextual factors are concerned with the degree to which situations are religiously structured i.e. was the person at church?
[5] People attribute things that are beyond their control, such as the death of a loved one and natural disasters, to God.
He was fighting his brother in law Maxentius who had taken possession of Rome According to a biography written by Eusebius, Constantine was unsure of which god to pray to for guidance.
That same day, Constantine and his army witnessed a cross shaped glowing symbol over the sun with the words written next to it: "By This Conquer.
Christopher Columbus was a Catholic and attributed his success not based solely on his own skills as a sailor, but to God for blessing his voyage.
[10] Columbus was quoted to have said: "I have seen and truly I have studied all books–cosmographies, histories, chronicles, and philosophies, and other arts, for which our Lord unlocked my mind, sent me upon the sea, and gave me fire for the deed.
[12] Some research claims Protestants will turn to internal or religious attribution more often than more-orthodox Catholics on average.
In the self-directive mode, the person is active and God plays a passive role in which they share power.