RT Article
T1 Religiosity and Prejudice in Northern and Southern Churches
JF Journal for the scientific study of religion
VO 12
IS 2
SP 181
OP 197
A1 Hoge, Dean R. 1937-2008
A1 Carroll, Jackson Walker 1932-
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 1973
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1668003007
AB Four theories purporting to explain patterns of prejudice among church members were tested separately and simultaneously using matched samples of Presbyterian and Methodist church members in the North and the South. Status concern and dogmatism were the strongest determinants of prejudice in both North and South. Religious variables such as orthodoxy and ethicalism proved to be weaker and associated only with anti-black prejudice, not anti-Semitism. Allport's theory of intrinsic-extrinsic religiosity and prejudice was not supported; it is argued that past research findings on intrinsic-extrinsic religiosity can be interpreted in terms of status concern and dogmatism. The strongest determinants of prejudice among church members appear to be personality factors rather than religious beliefs.
K1 Anomie
K1 Antisemitism
K1 Authoritarianism
K1 Churches
K1 Dogmatism
K1 Orthodoxy
K1 Religiosity
K1 Religious prejudice
DO 10.2307/1384888