The Gradient of Ecumenism and Opposition to Religious Intermarriage
As a result of the practice in research on interreligious marriage of classifying subjects by the heterogeneous categories, Catholic, Protestant, Jew, persons who are dissimilar on important variables are placed together while those persons who are similar are separated. Important relationships may...
| Published in: | Review of religious research |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1976
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Review of religious research
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| Summary: | As a result of the practice in research on interreligious marriage of classifying subjects by the heterogeneous categories, Catholic, Protestant, Jew, persons who are dissimilar on important variables are placed together while those persons who are similar are separated. Important relationships may thus be confounded. This study explores differences in attitude towards religious intermarriage among respondents randomly selected from the membership lists of ecumenical, moderate, and exclusive churches in a medium-sized west coast city. Results of interviews show that ecumenical church members show the least opposition to intermarriage and members of exclusive churches the strongest opposition. Intermarriage involving an exclusive church is the most strongly opposed regardless of respondents' church affiliation. Age, sex, occupation, or education show no significant influence on the expressed opposition to intermarriage. Individual church activity, contributions, or cultural relativism have a mixed influence on attitude. It is suggested that future research on interreligious marriage give more attention to the ecumenical-exclusive dimension of churches. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3510629 |