Tablighi religiosity counters racism through individual piety, not structural change.

Evidence

See Weiner, supra note 227, in which Crenshaw notes: They don’t care about what the ideas are. They can take the name, fill it with meaning, and create this hysteria, and that can be a winning issue when they really don’t have any other agendas to push. Obviously they don’t get that one of the main points of critical race theory is that to understand racism in our history only as a matter of prejudice or bias—as a matter of individuals who are morally bankrupt—is not to understand the history of race in America. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 451 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Some have argued, in defense of white Christian churches and institutions, that this link is driven primarily by those who claim a Christian identity but who have little connection to Christian churches. There’s even an acronym for this condition: CINO (Christians in name only). Those loosely connected white Christians, the theory goes, are more likely to hold racist views, while those who attend religious services more often—with more exposure to sermons, Sunday school, Bible study, and other forms of Christian discipleship offered within congregations—are more likely to be in solidarity with their African American brothers and sisters. … But there is no evidence that higher church exposure has any mitigating effect on racist attitudes; if anything, the opposite is true. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 523 (#complicates, via linked claim)

The literature on religion and prejudice has found inconclusive results. For reviews, see Batson et al., 1993; Kirkpatrick and Hood, 1990; Hansen and Norenzayan, 2006. Results often depend on the type of prejudice and the particular variables that are controlled for. 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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Extrinsic religiosity correlates with racism through social conformity, not personal values. — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 18; Secular ideology itself enables racial exclusion, not the religion it blames. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 690; Religious racism stems from group identification and conformity values, not theology itself. — Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood, Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A…, 76 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Racism is structural rather than the moral failure of individual bigots. #complicates (0.88) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 451
• Routine church attendance does not reduce racist attitudes #complicates (0.82) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 523
• Religiosity has only a small, reliable correlation with racial prejudice #complicates (0.76) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 863