Fundamentalism within an Indian Ideological Surround: Commitment to Religious Tradition Predicts Hindu Openness
Truth of Texts and Teaching (TTT) is a measure of fundamentalism that correlates negatively with religious openness in the West, but positively in India and other non-Western cultural contexts. This contrast might mean that fundamentalism differs across ideological surrounds or that TTT merely lacks...
| Published in: | Research in the social scientific study of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Religious sociology
B Social sciences B Religionspsycholigie B Allgemein B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft |
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| Summary: | Truth of Texts and Teaching (TTT) is a measure of fundamentalism that correlates negatively with religious openness in the West, but positively in India and other non-Western cultural contexts. This contrast might mean that fundamentalism differs across ideological surrounds or that TTT merely lacks validity as a measure fundamentalism outside the West. In this study, 377 Hindu university students in India responded to TTT along with Religious Fundamentalism and Intratextual Fundamentalism scales. All three fundamentalism measures correlated positively with each other and predicted higher religious openness as recorded by the Religious Schema Scales of Xenosophia (XEN) and Fairness, Tolerance, and Rationality (FTR). Fundamentalism measures also correlated positively with Hindu religious commitments, which in turn predicted higher XEN and FTR scores as well. These data confirmed TTT as a valid index of fundamentalism outside the West and supported the conclusion that conservative religious commitments have implications that differ across ideological surrounds. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004382640_017 |