Religiosity and Prejudice: An Update and Denominational Analysis
This paper examines the relationship between several measures of religiosity and prejudice for Catholics, Protestants, Latter-day Saints, and those with no religious affiliation. The data are from undergraduate students at several universities in the United States. The religious dimensions are bibli...
| Published in: | Review of religious research |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1998
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Review of religious research
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| Summary: | This paper examines the relationship between several measures of religiosity and prejudice for Catholics, Protestants, Latter-day Saints, and those with no religious affiliation. The data are from undergraduate students at several universities in the United States. The religious dimensions are biblical orthodoxy, experiential religiosity, frequency of religious attendance, and self-assessed importance of religion for the respondents. The measures of prejudice or racism include a racism scale, a proximity scale, and a measure of attitudes towards affirmative action programs. Both linear and curvilinear relationships between religiosity and prejudice are negligible for most groups. The exception was the Latter-day Saint or Mormon sample; for this group the relationship between religiosity and prejudice was negative, not positive. This result is explained in terms of the recent history of the church, the effect of its missionary program on the attitudes of the missionaries, and the hierarchical structure of the LDS church. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3512592 |