Religious groups split prejudice into forbidden and encouraged categories

Evidence

Proscribed prejudices are those that are explicitly opposed by an individual’s religious group. Nonproscribed prejudices are those that are either endorsed or implicitly encouraged. Nonproscribed prejudices include, for example, negative attitudes toward homosexuals on the part of church members in most Christian denominations in the United States (Herek, 1987) and negative attitudes toward non-Whites on the part of Afrikaner church members in South Africa during apartheid (Snook & Gorsuch, 1985). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2547

Categorization

• DEFINE: Cleanly defines proscribed vs nonproscribed prejudice, a distinction that explains why measuring the ‘wrong’ prejudice can mislead.
• 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; Religious priming elevates prejudice against LGBT people and atheists beyond other targets. — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 40; Latino religious-nationalist organizers recruit by redrawing outsider lines to exclude LGBT people. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 395 (+2 more)