Religiosity correlates with inclusive attitudes despite reinforcing its own boundaries

Evidence

Yet, counterintuitively, personal religiosity (which often reinforces group boundaries of its own kind) seems to have the opposite tendency. Nonreligious Americans who seek to foster greater racial and religious inclusion and are committed to religious freedom can (and should be willing to) find co-laborers in the cause among religious Americans who score as Resisters or Rejecters. There is historical precedent there. As historian Randall Balmer points out, devout Baptists were the earliest and strongest supporters of religious liberty in the colonies. In response to the strident Christian nationalism that has come to represent devout Christians in the media, religious Americans, and even particular evangelical Protestant groups like the Baptists Balmer eulogizes, could reclaim their historical support of religious tolerance and the separation of church and state. — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 372

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Intrinsic religiosity correlates with appearing unprejudiced rather than being tolerant; Self-reported religiosity reliably but weakly predicts racial prejudice; Intrinsic religiosity suppresses only the specific prejudices a religion prohibits — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2548 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Religiosity’s link to prejudice depends on whether the prejudice is proscribed. #qualifies (0.90) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2553
• Intrinsic religiosity correlates with appearing unprejudiced rather than being tolerant #qualifies (0.88)
• Religious groups distinguish proscribed from nonproscribed prejudices #expands (0.85)
• Self-reported religiosity reliably but weakly predicts racial prejudice #qualifies (0.82)
• Intrinsic religiosity predicts impression management rather than genuine tolerance #qualifies (0.82)
• Intrinsic religion reflects in-group conformity, not reduced prejudice #qualifies (0.80) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2548
• Intrinsic religiosity suppresses only the specific prejudices a religion prohibits #qualifies (0.78) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2548
• Intrinsic religion’s low-prejudice link vanishes under non-self-report measures #corroborates (0.78)
• Religion’s effect on prejudice depends on how it fits personality #expands (0.75)
• Intrinsic religion robustly predicts lower prejudice across 32 studies of religious activity #qualifies (0.75) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2539
• Religious esteem can heighten ethnocentric animosity rather than reduce it #complicates (0.75)