Strong religious identification predicts derogation of out-group members rather than anti-prejudice conviction.

Evidence

Religious Group Identification. Why should a strong religious identity promote racial prejudice? If religious group identity organizes social perceptions in the same way as political, national, and other social identities, then religious people are likely to respond to others based on whether they are in-group or out-group members. Especially given religious doctrine that sharply differentiates believers and nonbelievers, people who strongly identify with a religion are likely to derogate out-group members (Jackson & Hunsberger, 1999). — Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood, Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A…, 11

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences the reader’s key question — whether professed conviction (religious egalitarianism) diverges from measured bias by clarifying the mechanism proposed: identity-based in-group/out-group processing rather than conviction. — connects to: Religious upbringing predicts higher prejudice than no religious affiliation. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2526; Intergroup identification plus conventional life values, not doctrine, drive religious racism. — Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood, Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A…, 86; Religious conviction type rather than strength predicts measured racism — Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood, Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A…, 42 (+12 more)
• QUESTION: If religious identity per se drives out-group derogation via doctrine differentiating believers from nonbelievers, does this mechanism predict that religious tolerance teachings would fail because they don’t touch the identity structure?

Related

• Religious racism stems from group identification and conformity values, not theology itself. (similarity 0.88)
• Religion fuels prejudice against value-violating groups but restrains prejudice against racial groups. (similarity 0.87)
• Intergroup identification plus conventional life values, not doctrine, drive religious racism. (similarity 0.86)
• Religious conviction type rather than strength predicts measured racism (similarity 0.85)
• Religious priming elevates prejudice against LGBT people and atheists beyond other targets. (similarity 0.84)
• Theistic religious primes activate in-group identity while nontheistic ones activate universalism. (similarity 0.83)
• Religious group solidarity organizes others into outgroups by identity (similarity 0.83)
• Intrinsic religion reflects in-group conformity, not reduced prejudice (similarity 0.82)
• Religious upbringing predicts higher prejudice than no religious affiliation. (similarity 0.82)
• 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 0.82)
• Religious upbringing and church membership correlate with higher prejudice. (similarity 0.82)
• Groups whose identity means not being an out-group inevitably derogate that out-group (similarity 0.80)
• Religiosity’s link to prejudice depends on whether the prejudice is proscribed. (similarity 0.79)
• Religion fosters prejudice via intergroup bias, meaning-making threat, and authoritarianism. (similarity 0.79)
• Religious fundamentalism predicts prejudice only through rightwing authoritarianism (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Religious conviction type rather than strength predicts measured racism #complicates (0.88) — Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood, Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A…, 42
• Intergroup identification plus conventional life values, not doctrine, drive religious racism. #qualifies (0.85) — Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood, Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A…, 86
• Religious racism stems from group identification and conformity values, not theology itself. #qualifies (0.85) — Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood, Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A…, 76
• Self-reported religiosity reliably but weakly predicts racial prejudice #qualifies (0.85)
• Religious upbringing predicts higher prejudice than no religious affiliation. #complicates (0.82) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2526
• Religion fuels prejudice against value-violating groups but restrains prejudice against racial groups. #complicates (0.80) — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 17
• Religious upbringing and church membership correlate with higher prejudice. #corroborates (0.80) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2526
• Religious fundamentalism predicts prejudice only through rightwing authoritarianism #complicates (0.80) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2134
• Religious piety reduces overt but raises covert expressions of prejudice #complicates (0.78) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2553
• Religion’s effect on prejudice depends on how it fits personality #complicates (0.78)
• Religious priming causally increases prejudice toward LGBT people and atheists #expands (0.78) — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 108
• Intrinsic religion reflects in-group conformity, not reduced prejudice #complicates (0.78) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2548
• Anti-Muslim othering correlates with stronger Christian self-identification #exemplifies (0.75)