RT Article
T1 The Challenge of Religious Pluralism: The Association Between Interfaith Contact and Religious Pluralism
JF Review of religious research
VO 53
IS 3
SP 323
OP 340
A1 Brown, R. Khari
A1 Brown, Ronald E.
LA English
PB Springer
YR 2011
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1822418399
AB This research contributes to increasing understanding of the ways in which Christians think about religious pluralism in the United States. It does so by empirically uncovering the relationship between inter-faith contact and the willingness of white Christians to support tenets of religious pluralism. To that end, this study largely intimates that religious identity reinforces a dualistic world view. For white Christians, it is likely that contact with Jews and not Muslims is salient to their religious pluralist understandings. Nonetheless, more so than other Christians, Evangelicals tend to embrace a theology that views their belief system as being in conflict and competition with non-Christians. To that end, it is plausible that even when Christians have positive contact experiences with Jews and Muslims, Evangelicals are less willing than are other Christians to recognize them as members of the American religious polity.
K1 Inter-faith attitudes
K1 Inter-group contact
K1 Religious Pluralism
DO 10.1007/s13644-011-0014-5