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- Title
Fundamentalism, Christian Orthodoxy, and Intrinsic Religious Orientation as Predictors of Discriminatory Attitudes.
- Authors
Kirkpatrick, Lee A.
- Abstract
This article studies the correlation between religious orthodoxy or fundamentalism with prejudice. One of the oldest and most important topics in the scientific study of religion concerns the relationship between religion and prejudice. It is also the problem that led to develop a highly influential distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientations. In an attempt to understand why church attendance and other general religiosity measures were found consistently to correlate positively with ethnic prejudice, an attempt was made to show empirically that an extrinsic orientation, but not an intrinsic orientation, was positively related to prejudice. This pattern of results has been replicated many times in various forms. When prejudice against groups other than racial minorities is considered, however, the picture becomes more complex. Though uncorrelated with ethnic prejudice, the Intrinsic scale has been shown to correlate positively with discriminatory attitudes toward gays and lesbians, competing political/religious groups and communists and women. Thus the Intrinsic-prejudice relationship appears to be moderated by the target of discrimination under consideration.
- Subjects
FUNDAMENTALIST churches; DISCRIMINATION -- Religious aspects; RELIGION; PREJUDICES; ATTITUDE (Psychology); GAY people; COMMUNISTS; WOMEN
- Publication
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1993, Vol 32, Issue 3, p256
- ISSN
0021-8294
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1386664