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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publications
[2019]
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| 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
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| 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. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s13644-019-00384-z |