Self‐attributing religious knowledge

People regularly profess belief in religious ideas. But do they merely think of themselves as believing, or do they think of themselves as possessing knowledge ? I first argue that it is difficult to determine this based purely on religious people's self‐descriptions. I instead appeal to functionalist considerations about the way religious metacognitive attitudes are formed and guide action, which suggest ordinary religious people often do self‐attribute knowledge. This raises problems for recent arguments that first‐order religious attitudes are a form of make‐believe instead of genuine belief, while also bringing out the importance of religious metacognition for fully understanding religious psychology.