On Conceptualizing Salience in Religious Commitment

Two alternative approaches to the conceptualization and analysis of salience in religious commitment are examined: specification and linear, additive models. Using data from a North Carolina sample of Episcopalians, little evidence is found in support of a specification effect. Considerably more sup...

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Authors: Roof, Wade Clark 1939-2019 (Author) ; Perkins, Richard B. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [1975]
In: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 1975, Volume: 14, Issue: 2, Pages: 111-128
Further subjects:B Orthodox Church
B Conservatism
B Reification
B Religious prejudice
B Conceptualization
B Faith
B Saliency
B Racism
B Orthodoxy
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Summary:Two alternative approaches to the conceptualization and analysis of salience in religious commitment are examined: specification and linear, additive models. Using data from a North Carolina sample of Episcopalians, little evidence is found in support of a specification effect. Considerably more support is obtained, however, for a linear, additive formulation in which salience is conceptualized as intervening between localistic world view and orthodoxy, as independent variables, and four consequential dimension measures. Salience is shown to have a "counter effect" to that of orthodoxy in the cases of church activism, political conservatism, antiblack prejudice, and racism. Issues pertinent to further research on religious salience are raised.
ISSN:1468-5906
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/1384735