Religious Fundamentalism
The fundamentalistic attitude (operationalized in form of a scale consisting of four items related to biblical literalism, particularism, exclusivism and punishing God concept) is more common among those with less privileged social position (less educated, older and living in a smaller communities)...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2002
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| In: |
Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2002, Volume: 13, Pages: 205-219 |
| Further subjects: | B
History of religion studies
B Social sciences B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft |
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| Summary: | The fundamentalistic attitude (operationalized in form of a scale consisting of four items related to biblical literalism, particularism, exclusivism and punishing God concept) is more common among those with less privileged social position (less educated, older and living in a smaller communities) and Catholics. Although fundamentalists are more religious, the moral consequences of their religiosity are different. In comparison to general religiosity measured as frequency of religious practices and the strength of religious autoidentification, fundamentalism is differently related to some of the moral and social issues. General religiosity is positively related to disapproval of death penalty and tolerant attitude to ethnic and religious outgroups, whereas in case of fundamentalism we observe the opposite relationships. Results are interpreted in terms of theory of dogmatic/authoritarian personality. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004496347_013 |