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In diverse nations and religions, we examined how religiosity and "coalitional rigidity" (authoritarianism, dogmatism, fundamentalism, exclusivity) relate to "religion-based intergroup hostility", a kind of religious intolerance. In all the religious groups examined, religiosity and coalitional rigidity correlated positively with each other but they nevertheless made opposing predictions of religious intolerance--religiosity had null or negative relationships with intolerance, and coalitional rigidity had null or positive independent relationships with intolerance.
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Why is it important?
Our findings suggest that even though people who are religious tend to be conservative or exhibit coalitional rigidity, these two inclinations--religiosity and coalitional rigidity--are not the same. To some extent they may even be considered opposing inclinations--a kind of "odd couple". The findings also suggest that religiosity, across very different religions, has the potential to be a force for tolerance in spite of its association with coalitional rigidity. Since we find this pattern cross-culturally it may be that, for predicting tolerance, how one believes matters more than what one believes.
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This page is a summary of: In Search of “Religion Proper”, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, April 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0022022116644983.
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