Church content, not attendance frequency, drives membersâ prejudice levels.
Evidence
Finally, I suspect that if parenting, schooling, and the media can affect prejudice, so can churches, for good or evil. How active you are in your church may have little to do with how prejudiced you are, compared to what your church teaches, directly and indirectly, about authoritarianism and ethnocentrism. â Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1992
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Connects to âGrafting & Growthâ essay theme of institutions as infrastructure â here the teaching content of institutions, not the behavioral dose.
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- Church doctrine, not attendance frequency, shapes member prejudice (similarity 0.92)
- Church attendance, not mere membership, moderates the religion-prejudice link (similarity 0.83)
- Highly active church members show the least prejudice of all attendance groups (similarity 0.83)
- Church members are consistently more prejudiced than nonmembers (similarity 0.80)