Religiosity and Conservatism Revisited: Relating a New Religiosity Measure to the Two Main Conservative Political Ideologies

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 2003 English Publisher:SAGE PublicationsJournal:Psychological Reports, volume 92, pages 533-539 (issn: 0033-2941, eissn: 1558-691X,

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Authors: Bart, Duriez;

doi: 10.2466/pr0.2003.92.2.533 , 10.2466/pr0.92.2.533-539

pmid: 12785637

Religiosity and Conservatism Revisited: Relating a New Religiosity Measure to the Two Main Conservative Political Ideologies

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Abstract

The relation between the two religiosity dimensions which Wulff (1997) described (Exclusion vs Inclusion of Transcendence and Literal vs Symbolic) and two conservative political ideologies (Cultural and Economic Conservatism) was investigated in a sample of 714 students, a heterogeneous sample of 262 adults, and a sample of 301 religiously affiliated adults gathered in Flanders (Belgium). Both Exclusion vs Inclusion of Transcendence and Literal vs Symbolic were expected to relate only to Cultural Conservatism. Analysis supported these hypotheses, providing further evidence for the close association between religiosity and Cultural Conservatism and the validity of the Post-Critical Belief scale as a measure of Wulff's dimensions of religiosity.

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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Belgium
KU Leuven
Belgium

Keywords

Adult, Male, Religion, Adolescent, Culture, Politics, Humans, Female, Middle Aged

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