The Contribution of Religiosity to Ideology

Empirical Evidences From Five Continents

Bibliographic Data

ID24315471
AuthorsGian Vittorio Caprara (0000-0001-7998-7087, Sapienza University of Rome), Michele Vecchione (0000-0002-8907-9872, Sapienza University of Rome), Shalom H Schwartz (0000-0003-2673-9332, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), Harald Schoen (0000-0001-8893-1579, University of Mannheim), Paul G Bain (0000-0001-5521-2738, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia), Jo Silvester (0000-0002-2769-4722, City, University of London), Jan Cieciuch (0000-0002-2291-8301, University of Zurich), Vassilis Pavlopoulos (0000-0002-6465-6725, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Gabriel Bianchi (0000-0002-8907-9426, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic), Hasan Kirmanoglu (Istanbul Bilgi University), Cem Baslevent (Istanbul Bilgi University), Catalin Mamali (University of Wisconsin–Platteville), Jorge Manzi (0000-0003-2324-7156, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile), Miyuki Katayama (Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan), Tetyana Posnova (Yuriy Fedkovich Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine), Carmen Tabernero (0000-0003-4338-7367, Universidad de Salamanca), Claudio Torres (0000-0002-3727-7391, Universidade de Brasília), Markku Verkasalo (0000-0002-4356-9649, University of Helsinki), Jan-Erik Lönnqvist (0000-0001-8292-6090, University of Helsinki), Eva Vondráková (Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovak Republic), Maria Giovanna Caprara (Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Collado Villalba, Spain)
Year2018
Volume52
Issue5
Pages524-541
Publication date2018-12-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCross-Cultural Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1069-3971 • E-ISSN: 1552-3578
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1069397118774233
OpenAlexW2803243000
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited31

The current study examines the extent to which religiosity account for ideological orientations in 16 countries from five continents (Australia, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Greece, Finland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States). Results showed that religiosity was consistently related to right and conservative ideologies in all countries, except Australia. This relation held across different religions, and did not vary across participant’s demographic conditions (i.e., gender, age, income, and education). After controlling for basic personal values, the contribution of religiosity on ideology was still significant. However, the effect was substantial only in countries where religion has played a prominent role in the public sphere, such as Spain, Poland, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, and Turkey. In the other countries, the unique contribution of religiosity was marginal or small.

Conservatism · Cross-cultural psychology · cross-national comparison · personal values · political ideology · Religion and politics · religion in public life · Religiosity · right-wing ideology · Cultural Differences and Values · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology