Racial prejudice peaks among moderate rather than frequent church attendees

Evidence

We investigated this possibility with five studies that met the criteria for inclusion in our review. A high level of racial prejudice was expressed by 52% (fixed) and 49% (random) of people who never or rarely attended church, 66% (fixed and random) of people with moderate attendance (a few times a year to almost weekly), and 60% (fixed) and 57% (random) of people who attended often (once a week or more). Although this overall pattern suggests an inverted U shape, with the most prejudice among the moderate attendees, comparisons between these groups revealed a significant difference only between the low and moderate frequency groups (p < . — Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood, Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A…, 84

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Religion fuels prejudice against value-violating groups but restrains prejudice against racial groups. — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 17; Self-reported religiosity reliably but weakly predicts racial prejudice; Religious upbringing and church membership correlate with higher prejudice. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2526 (+9 more)

Related

• Routine church attendance does not reduce racist attitudes (similarity 0.89)
• Racist views predict evangelical identity four times more among regular attenders (similarity 0.87)
• Racism predicts white Christian identity better than church attendance does (similarity 0.83)
• Religious upbringing and church membership correlate with higher prejudice. (similarity 0.81)
• Religion fuels prejudice against value-violating groups but restrains prejudice against racial groups. (similarity 0.80)
• Church attendance, not mere membership, moderates the religion-prejudice link (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Religion fuels prejudice against value-violating groups but restrains prejudice against racial groups. #qualifies (0.85) — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 17
• Overlapping category boundaries can manufacture a curvilinear relationship between church attendance and prejudice #complicates (0.85)
• Self-reported religiosity reliably but weakly predicts racial prejudice #expands (0.80)
• Intense Christian faith now correlates with rather than reduces racial prejudice #contradicts (0.80)
• Church content, not attendance frequency, drives members’ prejudice levels. #qualifies (0.80)
• Religious upbringing and church membership correlate with higher prejudice. #responds-to (0.75) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2526
• Religious piety reduces overt but raises covert expressions of prejudice #complicates (0.75) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2553
• Religious conviction type rather than strength predicts measured racism #qualifies (0.72) — Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood, Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A…, 42
• Religiosity-prejudice links are correlational, not established as causal #qualifies (0.72) — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 25