Orthodoxy, Activism, and the Salience of Religion

It is proposed that previous studies of the relationship between orthodoxy and social activism have yielded inconsistent findings because a critical mediating variable, salience or perceived importance of religion, usually has been neglected. Findings from a survey of 1,300 students at Washington St...

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Authors: Bahr, Howard M. 1938- (Author) ; Chadwick, Bruce A. 1940- (Author) ; Bartel, Lois Franz (Author)
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语言:English
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出版: Wiley-Blackwell [1971]
In: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 1971, 卷: 10, 发布: 2, Pages: 69-75
Further subjects:B Methodism
B Orthodox Church
B Clerics
B Catholicism
B College students
B Saliency
B Religiosity
B Orthodoxy
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总结:It is proposed that previous studies of the relationship between orthodoxy and social activism have yielded inconsistent findings because a critical mediating variable, salience or perceived importance of religion, usually has been neglected. Findings from a survey of 1,300 students at Washington State University support the hypothesized role of salience as a mediating variable. Relationship between orthodoxy and church activism emerges only for the high salience subsamples. The apparent utility of the orthodoxy-salience-activism model for bringing coherence to previously inconsistent findings seems to argue for more widespread use of salience as a control variable in studies of the concomitants and consequences of religiosity.
ISSN:1468-5906
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/1385294