Blessed Are the Downtrodden? An Empirical Test
Deprivation theory of religious commitment has relied traditionally upon status measures of deprivation: age, sex, income, education, race. Measures of religiosity and status indicators, however, have never been combined with subjective measures of felt deprivation. A recent major national quality o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1978
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1978, Volume: 39, Issue: 4, Pages: 303-320 |
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| Summary: | Deprivation theory of religious commitment has relied traditionally upon status measures of deprivation: age, sex, income, education, race. Measures of religiosity and status indicators, however, have never been combined with subjective measures of felt deprivation. A recent major national quality of life survey fills this gap by providing a cluster of felt deprivation measures. The data enable us to ask if religiosity cushions the effects of negative feelings of well-being among the “objectively” deprived. Results suggest religiosity, as measured by survey indicators, has little effect in this regard, a finding which raises questions concerning traditional formulations of functional definitions as well as the adequacy of religiosity and quality of life measures. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3709974 |