Race, Religion, and Death: How Racial Attitudes Contextualize the Relationship Between Religion and Support for Capital Punishment

被引：0

作者：

Chuang, Louis ^{[1
]}

Harris, Jacob ^{[1
]}

Jones, Melissa S. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Cornell Univ, Dept Govt, 123 Cent Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850 USA

[2] Brigham Young Univ, Dept Sociol, Provo, UT USA

来源：

JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION | 2024年 / 63卷 / 03期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

religion; race; public opinion; capital punishment; racial resentment; SYMBOLIC RACISM; CONTINUING SIGNIFICANCE; CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM; FUNDAMENTALISM; RESENTMENT; PREJUDICE; PENALTY; DIVIDE;

D O I：

10.1111/jssr.12912

中图分类号：

C91 [社会学];

学科分类号：

030301 ; 1204 ;

摘要：

How do racial attitudes affect the relationship between religion and support for capital punishment? Past research has clearly established important links between religion, racial attitudes, and capital punishment. Yet, it remains unclear how racial attitudes affect this relationship. We examine this question using a large sample of respondents from the General Social Survey from 1994 to 2018. We find evidence of a strong moderating effect where the relationship between religion and support for capital punishment varies considerably contingent on racial resentment. At high levels of racial resentment, support for capital punishment is uniformly high across all religious traditions while there are large disparities at low levels of racial resentment. Thus, strongly held, prejudicial racial attitudes overshadow the association between religion and support for capital punishment. Future research should more seriously consider the racial dynamics embedded religion and punishment.

引用

页码：656 / 674

页数：19

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