Religious Belief and Attitude Constraint

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1990

Publication Title

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

Volume

29

Issue

1

First page number:

118

Last page number:

125

Abstract

In recent years, both the Moral Majority and the American Catholic Bishops have taken positions on diverse public issues, presenting these issues as coherent packages with single, underlying rationales. This study investigated the extent to which members of the mass public regard these issues as parts of more general gestalts. This was accomplished by examining the levels of constraint exhibited by members of different denominational groups. No religious group exhibited a high level of attitude consistency, but religiosity was related to attitude constraint among Evangelicals across a range of sex role and sexuality issues.

Keywords

Catholics; Bishops; Evangelicalism; Sex roles; Sex

Disciplines

American Politics | Catholic Studies | Political Science | Religion

Language

English

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