The Church, Individual Religiosity, and Social Justice

The role of the church in contemporary issues of social justice is examined by analyzing attitudinal data from a sample of college students. While considerable support was accorded the diffuse national goal of a fully integrated society, the respondents were far from certain that the clergy and the church should be actively involved in obtaining this goal. More church members than non-members agreed with the general orientation of a fully integrated society, although more Protestants and non-members than Catholics supported the active involvement of the clergy. An analysis of the data by the degree of individual religiosity, as measured by an eight-item Guttman scale, showed that, in general a larger proportion of high as compared with low religiosity respondents supported an integrated society as a national goal, but a lower proportion of high religiosity respondents supported direct involvement by the church or the clergy

Criminology · Developmental psychology · Economic Justice · Geography · Guttman scale · Political science · Religiosity · Religious orientation · Sample (material) · Scale (ratio) · Social justice · Sociology · Law · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology

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