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

12 published claims from this book.

• Intergroup identification plus conventional life values, not doctrine, drive religious racism.
• Labor migrants use religion, not race or class, to frame ethical positions.
• Post-1964 social proscription of racism allows measurement of social-pressure effects on prejudice.
• Racial prejudice peaks among moderate rather than frequent church attendees
• Religiosity branches into conformity-based and benevolence-based motive clusters with distinct social effects.
• Religious conviction type rather than strength predicts measured racism
• Religious group solidarity organizes others into outgroups by identity
• Religious racism stems from group identification and conformity values, not theology itself.
• Self-reported religious conviction diverges from measured racial tolerance
• Strong religious identification predicts derogation of out-group members rather than anti-prejudice conviction.
• The mere existence of religious outsiders threatens triumphalist unity narratives
• The religion-racism link reverses direction depending on the field conducting the study