Americans' Views of Muslims and Mormons: A Social Identity Theory Approach

Penning, James M.

doi:10.1017/s1755048309000236

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“…These results align with previous findings from Britain, the US and Europe (Clements, 2012;Kalkan et al, 2009;Nisbet et al, 2009;Strabac et al, 2014). Though previous research focusing on the American context has found differences between religious denominations in their attitudes toward Muslims (Jung, 2012;Merino, 2010;Penning, 2009), in the Canadian case, no robust differences between faith groups emerge. There are no significant differences between Protestants, Catholics, Jews and members of other faiths.…”

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Friends, Neighbours, Townspeople and Parties: Explaining Canadian Attitudes toward Muslims

Gravelle

2018

Can J Pol Sci

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The 2015 Canadian federal election campaign put into focus relations between Muslim communities in Canada and wider Canadian society, featuring debates around banning the niqab, and a “barbaric cultural practices” hotline. At the same time, challenges in relations between Muslims and majority-group Canadians were not a new development in 2015: they had in the past faced periodic strains due to terrorism-related events, and attacks targeting Muslims in Canada. The Canadian case is in fact reflective of a challenge in intergroup relations facing several Western democracies. In light of this, what accounts for majority-group Canadians’ attitudes toward Muslims in Canada? Drawing on data from the 2011 and 2015 Canadian Election Studies and theories linking outgroup perceptions to intergroup contact (friends), local demographic context at both the micro-level (neighbours) and meso-level (townspeople), and political factors (parties), this article seeks to explain why majority-group Canadians hold alternately positive or negative views of Muslims.

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Section: Resultssupporting

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Friends, Neighbours, Townspeople and Parties: Explaining Canadian Attitudes toward Muslims

Gravelle

2018

Can J Pol Sci

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“…A 2007 survey showed that Mormons were viewed much less favorably than most other religious groups (Penning 2009). Multiple surveys have asked respondents whether a candidate's affiliation with the Mormon Church would impact their likelihood of voting for that candidate.…”

Section: Romney Mormonism and Votingmentioning

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Attitudes toward Mormons and Voter Behavior in the 2012 Presidential Election

Hawley

2015

Politics and Religion

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Prior to the 2012 presidential election, some commentators speculated that Mitt Romney's status as a devout and active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would undermine his presidential aspirations. Using the 2012 American National Election Survey, this study examines the relationship between attitudes toward Mormons and voter behavior in the United States in that election year. It finds that attitudes toward Mormons had a statistically-significant effect on turnoutthough these effects differed according to party identification. It additionally finds that these attitudes influenced vote choice. In both cases, the substantive effects were small, indicating that anti-Mormon feelings did play a role in the 2012 presidential election, but they did not determine the final outcome.

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“…For much of its existence, the Mormon faith has been regarded by American Protestants as not Christian (cf. Penning ). Indeed, until recently, even such a centrist evangelical figure as the Rev.…”

Section: Barack Obama and The Cultural Politics Of American Civil Relmentioning

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Civil Religion and the Cultural Politics of National Identity in Obama's America

Williams

2013

Scientific Study of Religion

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American civil religion (ACR) burst on to the scholarly scene in 1967, and has been periodically revived as a source of analytic insight and normative hope since that time. It posited a universalist, prophetic, nonsectarian faith, referenced on the nation, that served as both a source of unity for the American people and a discursive resource for political leaders and protest movements. Using recent political events as illustrative cases, I argue that ACR is not only a universalist, prophetic creed, it is also an expression of tribal identity that ascribes a particular character and purpose to the American people. In particular, this “tribal” civil religion has an often‐unstated assumption about the inseparability of religion, race, and national identity—that is, white, Christian, and American. Recent events have disrupted those implicit connections, leading to a vociferous reemphasis of their centrality to the national story. I maintain that neither ACR, nor recent politics involving immigration and Barack Obama's presidency, can be understood fully without considering the religion‐race‐national identity nexus.

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Americans' Views of Muslims and Mormons: A Social Identity Theory Approach

Cited by 31 publications

References 22 publications

Friends, Neighbours, Townspeople and Parties: Explaining Canadian Attitudes toward Muslims

Friends, Neighbours, Townspeople and Parties: Explaining Canadian Attitudes toward Muslims

Attitudes toward Mormons and Voter Behavior in the 2012 Presidential Election

Civil Religion and the Cultural Politics of National Identity in Obama's America

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