Extrinsic religion serves nonreligious ends while intrinsic religion is an end in itself

Evidence

By 1959, he had shifted from speaking of immature and mature religion to speaking of “extrinsic” and “intrinsic” religion (Allport, 1959). … We borrow from axiology the concept of extrinsic value and intrinsic value. The distinction helps us to separate churchgoers whose communal type of membership supports and serves other, nonreligious ends, from those for whom religion is an end in itself - a final, not instrumental, good. (Allport, 1966, p. 454, italics in original) Extrinsic religion involves using one’s religion as an instrumental means to the self-serving ends of gaining social status and personal security. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2533

Categorization

• DEFINE: The intrinsic/extrinsic terminology shift is the classic, widely-cited formulation of Allport’s religious orientation typology.