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...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Review of religious research |
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer
[2017]
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Review of religious research
Jahr: 2017, Band: 59, Heft: 4, Seiten: 529-545 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
USA
/ Religion
/ Gottesvorstellung
/ Sterbehilfe
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik KBQ Nordamerika NBC Gotteslehre NCH Medizinische Ethik |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Religious Belief
B God Images B Euthanasia |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s13644-017-0304-7 |