Extrinsic religiosity correlates with racism through social conformity, not personal values.

Evidence

Those who are religious for extrinsic reasons do not integrate religious values as personal values and, therefore, are not consistently opposed to lesbians and gay men. However, extrinsic religiosity is related to social conformity (Hall et al., 2010), which may explain the relation between extrinsic religiosity and racism; racist attitudes are still widely shared in both the United States and international society. — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 18

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the reader’s inquiry on whether professed conviction predicts actual bias: extrinsic religiosity tracks ambient social norms rather than internalized values. — connects to: Religious conviction type rather than strength predicts measured racism — Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood, Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A…, 42; Religious racism stems from group identification and conformity values, not theology itself. — Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood, Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A…, 76; Intergroup identification plus conventional life values, not doctrine, drive religious racism. — Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood, Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A…, 86 (+3 more)

Related

• Extrinsic religion correlates with higher prejudice than intrinsic religion across diverse measures (similarity 0.87)
• Religiosity-prejudice links are correlational, not established as causal (similarity 0.85)
• Intergroup identification plus conventional life values, not doctrine, drive religious racism. (similarity 0.85)
• Religious conviction type rather than strength predicts measured racism (similarity 0.85)
• Religious racism stems from group identification and conformity values, not theology itself. (similarity 0.84)
• Religion fuels prejudice against value-violating groups but restrains prejudice against racial groups. (similarity 0.84)
• Intrinsic religion reflects in-group conformity, not reduced prejudice (similarity 0.82)
• Conservative values partly mediate the link between religiosity and racism (similarity 0.82)
• Neither intrinsic nor social religion predicts measured implicit racial bias (similarity 0.82)
• Intrinsic religion robustly predicts lower prejudice across 32 studies of religious activity (similarity 0.81)
• Intrinsic religion reduces prejudice while extrinsic religion increases it across 32 studies. (similarity 0.81)
• Religiosity correlates with inclusive attitudes despite reinforcing its own boundaries (similarity 0.81)
• Religious intrinsic orientation tracks whatever attitudes one’s religion endorses (similarity 0.80)
• Intrinsic religiosity tracks whatever prejudice one’s religion endorses, for or against. (similarity 0.80)
• Intrinsic religiosity suppresses only the specific prejudices a religion prohibits (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Extrinsic religion correlates with higher prejudice than intrinsic religion across diverse measures #corroborates (0.85) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2535
• Religiosity-prejudice links are correlational, not established as causal #qualifies (0.78) — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 25
• Extrinsic religion is compatible with prejudice; intrinsic rules it out #qualifies (0.72)