Religious Service Attendance, Moral Foundations, God Concept, and In-Group Giving: Testing Moderated Mediation

Studies demonstrate that religious people are more likely to donate money to charity, but these donations are more often given to in-group members (e.g., religiously affiliated organizations). Few studies test mechanisms by which religious attendance affects the bias toward in-group giving. Moral fo...

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Authors: Shepherd, Abigail M. (Author) ; Schnitker, Sarah A. (Author) ; Greenway, Tyler S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publications [2019]
In: Review of religious research
Year: 2019, Volume: 61, Issue: 4, Pages: 301-322
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Worship service / Charitable works / Ingroup / Idea of God / Moral sense
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
CB Christian life; spirituality
NCB Personal ethics
NCC Social ethics
ZB Sociology
Further subjects:B Religious Attendance
B Generosity
B God concept
B In-group giving
B Moral Foundations
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Summary:Studies demonstrate that religious people are more likely to donate money to charity, but these donations are more often given to in-group members (e.g., religiously affiliated organizations). Few studies test mechanisms by which religious attendance affects the bias toward in-group giving. Moral foundations are proposed as mediators of the association between religious attendance and the in-group giving bias, and traditional God concept is proposed as a moderator of the relation between attendance and moral foundations. Data were collected from Christians in the USA. (N = 311), and participants were given an opportunity to donate their payment to Christian (in-group), Muslim (out-group), or secular charities. The traditional God concept variable moderated the indirect effect of the fairness/reciprocity foundation in explaining the relation between religious attendance and giving. People with highly traditional God concepts and higher religious attendance reported higher fairness/reciprocity scores, and they gave less to in-group charities and more to out-group charities.
ISSN:2211-4866
Contains:Enthalten in: Review of religious research
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s13644-019-00384-z