Self-reported religiosity reliably but weakly predicts racial prejudice
Evidence
A recent comprehensive analysis (Hall et al., 2010) that included 55 studies with mostly White Christian participants in the United States found a small but reliable association between self-reported religiosity and racial prejudice. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 863
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Self-reported religiosity may diverge from measures of implicit prejudice. (similarity 0.84)
- Self-reported religious conviction diverges from measured racial tolerance (similarity 0.83)
- Conservative values partly mediate the link between religiosity and racism (similarity 0.82)
- Quest-scale religiosity correlates negatively with prejudice even covertly measured (similarity 0.82)
- Personal religiosity correlates with progressive views on police violence once Christian nationalism is controlled (similarity 0.81)
- The religion-racism link reverses direction depending on the field conducting the study (similarity 0.81)
- Religious conviction type rather than strength predicts measured racism (similarity 0.80)
- Religiosity-prejudice links are correlational, not established as causal (similarity 0.80)
- Prior religion-prejudice meta-analyses were purely correlational and each studied one target group. (similarity 0.80)
- Correlational data cannot establish whether religion causes prejudice. (similarity 0.80)
- Neither intrinsic nor social religion predicts measured implicit racial bias (similarity 0.80)
- Prejudice may drive people toward religion, not only vice versa (similarity 0.79)
- Only religion-as-quest predicts reduced covert prejudice (similarity 0.79)
- Intrinsic religion robustly predicts lower prejudice across 32 studies of religious activity (similarity 0.79)
- Christian statism correlates with racial distrust while religious traditionalism correlates with trust. (similarity 0.79)