The Religious Foundations of Welfare, Social Inclusion, and Anti-Immigrant Attitudes in Europe

This paper unites disparate literature to test the influence of religious belonging and behavior characteristics along with secular welfare boundaries on anti-immigrant attitudes. We suggest that welfare states varied in their religious foundations during the transition from religious-based solidari...

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VerfasserInnen: Ponce, Aaron (Verfasst von) ; Marquart-Pyatt, Sandra (Verfasst von)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: 2023
In: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Jahr: 2023, Band: 62, Heft: 4, Seiten: 802-822
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Europa / Wohlfahrtsstaat / Staatsform / Religion / Einstellung / Einwanderer / Ausgrenzung / Geschichte 2002-2016
RelBib Classification:AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
KBA Westeuropa
KBK Osteuropa
NCC Sozialethik
NCD Politische Ethik
TK Neueste Zeit
ZC Politik
weitere Schlagwörter:B anti-immigrant attitudes
B Religious Nationalism
B Welfare State
B welfare chauvinism
B religious boundaries
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Zusammenfassung:This paper unites disparate literature to test the influence of religious belonging and behavior characteristics along with secular welfare boundaries on anti-immigrant attitudes. We suggest that welfare states varied in their religious foundations during the transition from religious-based solidarity to modern state-based solidarity and formulate a novel analytical framework to hypothesize effects across individuals and welfare regime types. Using eight waves of the European Social Survey (2002–16), we find that religious effects are strongest in welfare states with the most religious foundations, the Southern European welfare states, and weak in the universalist welfare states, which lacked historical state-church tensions. Other welfare types show a mix of religious effects, with some challenging expectations. Furthermore, Christian majority membership is often associated with heightened anti-immigrant attitudes, most consistently in contrast to the non-Christian minority. For welfare-based forms of inclusion, we find consistent institutional trust effects and two competing logics for secular boundaries: a propensity for welfare chauvinism and a culture of inclusion.
ISSN:1468-5906
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12869