“For God and Country”: Religion and the Endorsement of National Self-Stereotypes
To assess the relationship between personal religious motivation and spontaneous thoughts about one’s nation, Canadian and American undergraduates completed a measure of religious orientation, and both listed and rated the importance of self-generated thoughts about their respective countries. Among...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2000
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Journal of cross-cultural psychology
Year: 2000, Volume: 31, Issue: 4, Pages: 517-527 |
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| Summary: | To assess the relationship between personal religious motivation and spontaneous thoughts about one’s nation, Canadian and American undergraduates completed a measure of religious orientation, and both listed and rated the importance of self-generated thoughts about their respective countries. Among Americans, intrinsic orientation predicted greater ascribed importance to the national heritage (e.g., freedom, equal opportunity, tradition, and family) and to official national symbols such as the flag. Among Canadians, intrinsic orientation predicted greater ascribed importance to multiculturalism, but was unrelated to the enshrining of national symbols. Thus, in both cases, intrinsic religion was associated with the endorsement of ideological components of the nation’s dominant self-stereotype. |
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| ISSN: | 1552-5422 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of cross-cultural psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0022022100031004005 |