Filled with the "Holy Smoke": Religion and Tobacco in Carolina
Increasing evidence indicates that the relationship between religion and moral constraint is contingent upon America's religious ecology. Following Durkheim's assertion that religion constrains individual actions via a moral community, this paper examines (1) the actions of leaders within...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
1988
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Review of religious research
Year: 1988, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 59-72 |
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| Summary: | Increasing evidence indicates that the relationship between religion and moral constraint is contingent upon America's religious ecology. Following Durkheim's assertion that religion constrains individual actions via a moral community, this paper examines (1) the actions of leaders within the Southern Baptist Convention with regard to the production and consumption of tobacco and (2) how residents of North Carolina are facing the issues of the nonsmoker rights movement. Data from a multistage probability sample of residents of a North Carolina county indicate that Baptists are just as likely as members of other denominations to smoke and are less likely to favor the legal control of public smoking. Born-again Christians were only slightly less likely to smoke than those who did not claim such identification; and no differences were found between these two groups with regard to support for the legal control of public smoking or its proximate causes. The results are discussed in light of religious syncretism and its effect on the moral constraint of individuals. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511841 |