Race, Religion, and Death: How Racial Attitudes Contextualize the Relationship Between Religion and Support for Capital Punishment
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
|---|---|
| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Department of Sociology Brigham Young University‐Provo |
| ANO | 2024 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion |
| ISSN | 0021-8294 |
| E-ISSN | 1468-5906 |
| DOI | 10.1111/jssr.12912 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
Resumo
How do racial attitudes affect the relationship between religion and support for capital punishment? Past research has clearly established important links between religion, racial attitudes, and capital punishment. Yet, it remains unclear how racial attitudes affect this relationship. We examine this question using a large sample of respondents from the General Social Survey from 1994 to 2018. We find evidence of a strong moderating effect where the relationship between religion and support for capital punishment varies considerably contingent on racial resentment. At high levels of racial resentment, support for capital punishment is uniformly high across all religious traditions while there are large disparities at low levels of racial resentment. Thus, strongly held, prejudicial racial attitudes overshadow the association between religion and support for capital punishment. Future research should more seriously consider the racial dynamics embedded religion and punishment.