Part I. Value Systems in Religion
The main purpose of the research reported herein was to determine whether those who are religious have a pattern of values that is distinctively different from those who are less religious and nonreligious. Religiousness was determined in several ways: nominal religious identification, frequency of...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer
1969
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Review of religious research
Year: 1969, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-23 |
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| Summary: | The main purpose of the research reported herein was to determine whether those who are religious have a pattern of values that is distinctively different from those who are less religious and nonreligious. Religiousness was determined in several ways: nominal religious identification, frequency of church attendance, and self-ratings on perceived importance of religion in one's daily life. Values were assessed by the Rokeach Value Survey which requires that the respondent rank 18 terminal values and 18 instrumental values for importance. The findings, obtained on a representative sample of adult Americans, confirmed that the religious, the less religious, and the nonreligious possess value systems that are discriminably different from one another. Religiously oriented Christians consistently ranked the terminal values salvation higher and pleasure lower than those less religious and nonreligious. Moreover, the religious typically ranked the moral values forgiving and obedient higher and the competence values independent, intellectual, and logical lower than the less religious and nonreligious. And when magnitude of value difference was considered as well as statistical significance two values, salvation and forgiving, were found to be the most distinctively Christian values. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3510550 |