Traditional God Images and Attitudes Towards Voluntary Euthanasia
I use data from the General Social Survey (N = 8905) to evaluate whether imagining God in traditional ways is associated with attitudes towards voluntary euthanasia. Bivariate analysis reveals that individuals who imagine God as a father, a master, and a king have negative attitudes towards voluntar...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage Publications
[2017]
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Review of religious research
Year: 2017, Volume: 59, Issue: 4, Pages: 529-545 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Religion
/ Idea of God
/ Terminal care
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RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KBQ North America NBC Doctrine of God NCH Medical ethics |
Further subjects: | B
Religious Belief
B God Images B Euthanasia |
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Summary: | I use data from the General Social Survey (N = 8905) to evaluate whether imagining God in traditional ways is associated with attitudes towards voluntary euthanasia. Bivariate analysis reveals that individuals who imagine God as a father, a master, and a king have negative attitudes towards voluntary euthanasia. The associations between imagining God as a father and as a master and attitudes towards voluntary euthanasia hold after controlling for religious affiliation, frequency of religious attendance, views of the Bible, and other sociodemographic characteristics that predict attitudes towards voluntary euthanasia; however, the association between imagining God as a king do not. I also find that while there is no association between imagining God as a judge on voluntary euthanasia attitudes at the bivariate level, there is a significant and positive association with having favorable voluntary euthanasia attitudes in the full model, revealing a suppression effect. These findings highlight the importance of evaluating if different, distinct beliefs about the same religious object have differential associations with social attitudes and behaviors. |
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ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s13644-017-0304-7 |