Mennonites and Social Compassion: The Rokeach Hypothesis Reconsidered
Rokeach (1969; 1970) has argued that orthodox Christianity fosters uncompassionate social attitudes. A sample of students attending a Mennonite college was studied in an effort to illustrate certain limitations of Rokeach's research and the conclusions drawn from it. The Mennonites in the sampl...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1973
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Review of religious research
Year: 1973, Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Pages: 16-28 |
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| Summary: | Rokeach (1969; 1970) has argued that orthodox Christianity fosters uncompassionate social attitudes. A sample of students attending a Mennonite college was studied in an effort to illustrate certain limitations of Rokeach's research and the conclusions drawn from it. The Mennonites in the sample were both highly orthodox in religious beliefs and relatively compassionate in social attitudes and thus constitute an exception to the inverse relationship hypothesized by Rokeach. Our data suggest that the relationship between religion and social compassion is not causal, as Rokeach argues. A third factor, i.e., conventionality of attitudes, appears to account for the relationship between these two variables. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3510293 |