Religious conviction type rather than strength predicts measured racism

Evidence

As predicted, the answer to the question of whether religious people are more racially prejudiced depended on the social-cognitive motives under­ lying religiosity. Table 2 displays the mean effect size for each dimension of religiosity. Consistent with our hypothe­ ses, greater religious identification, greater extrinsic religiosity, and greater religious fundamentalism were all positively related to racism. Greater intrinsic religiosity and greater quest were negatively related to racism, a relation that reflected racial tolerance. Suggesting that these effects reflected the specific social-cognitive motives tapped by each form of religiosity, scales assessing orthodoxy and other aspects of religious belief content did not reliably cor­ relate with racism. — Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood, Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A…, 42

Categorization

• XREF: Directly answers the meta-analysis question: self-reported conviction (orthodoxy/belief content) does NOT predict measured bias, while social-cognitive motives do — the divergence between professed belief and measured bias the reading purpose is chasing. — connects to: Strong religious identification predicts derogation of out-group members rather than anti-prejudice conviction. — Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood, Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A…, 11; Self-reported religious conviction diverges from measured racial tolerance — Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood, Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A…, 77; Self-reported religiosity reliably but weakly predicts racial prejudice (+9 more)
• ADDENDUM: The finding that orthodoxy and belief content don’t correlate with racism while extrinsic/identification/fundamentalism do parallels the divergence between professed conviction and measured bias central to the reader’s research.

Related

• Neither intrinsic nor social religion predicts measured implicit racial bias (similarity 0.87)
• Extrinsic religion correlates with higher prejudice than intrinsic religion across diverse measures (similarity 0.87)
• Self-reported religious conviction diverges from measured racial tolerance (similarity 0.86)
• Strong religious identification predicts derogation of out-group members rather than anti-prejudice conviction. (similarity 0.85)
• Extrinsic religiosity correlates with racism through social conformity, not personal values. (similarity 0.85)
• Self-reported religiosity may diverge from measures of implicit prejudice. (similarity 0.83)
• Intrinsic religion robustly predicts lower prejudice across 32 studies of religious activity (similarity 0.82)
• Intergroup identification plus conventional life values, not doctrine, drive religious racism. (similarity 0.81)
• Religiosity-prejudice links are correlational, not established as causal (similarity 0.81)
• Religious racism stems from group identification and conformity values, not theology itself. (similarity 0.81)
• Intrinsic religion reflects in-group conformity, not reduced prejudice (similarity 0.80)
• Religion fuels prejudice against value-violating groups but restrains prejudice against racial groups. (similarity 0.80)
• Self-reported religiosity reliably but weakly predicts racial prejudice (similarity 0.80)
• Religiosity correlates with inclusive attitudes despite reinforcing its own boundaries (similarity 0.80)
• Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood — Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A Meta-Analytic Review of Religious Racism (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Self-reported religious conviction diverges from measured racial tolerance #corroborates (0.90) — Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood, Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A…, 77
• Extrinsic religion correlates with higher prejudice than intrinsic religion across diverse measures #corroborates (0.80) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2535
• Intergroup identification plus conventional life values, not doctrine, drive religious racism. #corroborates (0.80) — Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood, Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A…, 86
• Evangelical Christianity predicts higher symbolic racism among White Americans #qualifies (0.78) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2189
• Self-reported religiosity reliably but weakly predicts racial prejudice #qualifies (0.75)
• Extrinsic religiosity correlates with racism through social conformity, not personal values. #qualifies (0.72) — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 18
• Neither intrinsic nor social religion predicts measured implicit racial bias #contradicts (0.72) — Wade C. Rowatt and Lewis M. Franklin, Christian Orthodoxy, Religious…, 73