Are Biological Science Knowledge, Interests, and Science Identity Framed by Religious and Political Perspectives in the United States?

Jochman, Joseph C.; Swendener, Alexis; McQuillan, Julia; Novack, Luke

doi:10.1080/00380253.2018.1481726

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“…Prior research has found that political conservatives and Republicans are more likely to hold anti-vaccine attitudes [3] , [4] , [6] , [17] , [22] , [24] , [25] , [32] , [33] , [42] . Recent research has also found that they are less likely to state that they plan to receive a COVID-19 vaccine [11] ; Gadarian, Goodman, and Pepinsky 2021).…”

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Christian nationalism and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and uptake

Corcoran

Scheitle

DiGregorio

2021

Vaccine

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Understanding COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and uptake is vital for informing public health interventions. Prior U.S. research has found that religious conservatism is positively associated with anti-vaccine attitudes. One of the strongest predictors of anti-vaccine attitudes in the U.S. is Christian nationalism—a U.S. cultural ideology that wants civic life to be permeated by their particular form of nationalist Christianity. However, there are no studies examining the relationship between Christian nationalism and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and uptake. Using a new nationally representative sample of U.S. adults, we find that Christian nationalism is one of the strongest predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and is negatively associated with having received or planning to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Since Christian nationalists make up approximately 20 percent of the population, these findings could have important implications for achieving herd immunity.

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Christian nationalism and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and uptake

Corcoran

Scheitle

DiGregorio

2021

Vaccine

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“…Prior research shows that similar processes are potentially at work. Political conservatives have over time become more skeptical of science and scientific expertise, especially regarding vaccines (Buckman et al 2020; Hornsey et al 2018; Jochman et al 2018). We also find that Catholics and Americans who do not affiliate with a religious tradition are significantly more likely than Protestants to hold anti-vaccine beliefs even after accounting for Christian nationalism, religiosity, and politics.…”

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“…We include several control measures known to be associated with anti-vaccine attitudes (Buckman et al 2020; Callaghan et al 2019; Hornsey et al 2018; Jochman et al 2018; McCoy 2020; Quinn and Lewin 2020). Our political control measures include political conservatism (1 = “extremely liberal” to 7 = “extremely conservative”) and political party (Republican [reference category], independent, or Democrat).…”

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“…Religious and political conservatism are prominent among factors predicting anti-vaxx sentiment because they often reflect a skepticism toward science in favor of more traditional sources of epistemic authority as well as more conspiratorial, individualist, and hierarchical thinking (Buckman et al 2020; Callaghan et al 2019; Hornsey, Harris, and Fielding 2018; Jochman et al 2018; Quinn and Lewin 2020). These findings dovetail with the broader research on religious conservatism and skepticism toward science writ large (Baker 2012; Ecklund and Scheitle 2018; Evans 2018; Gauchat 2012; Noy and O’Brien 2018; O’Brien and Noy 2015; Tom 2018).…”

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How Culture Wars Delay Herd Immunity: Christian Nationalism and Anti-vaccine Attitudes

Whitehead

Perry

2020

Socius

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Prior research demonstrates that a number of cultural factors—including politics and religion—are significantly associated with anti-vaccine attitudes. This is consequential because herd immunity is compromised when large portions of a population resist vaccination. Using a nationally representative sample of American adults that contains a battery of questions exploring views about vaccines, the authors demonstrate how a pervasive ideology that rejects scientific authority and promotes allegiance to conservative political leaders—what we and others call Christian nationalism—is consistently one of the two strongest predictors of anti-vaccine attitudes, stronger than political or religious characteristics considered separately. Results suggest that as Americans evaluate decisions to vaccinate themselves or their children, those who strongly embrace Christian nationalism—close to a quarter of the population—will be much more likely to abstain, potentially prolonging the threat of certain illnesses. The authors conclude by discussing the immediate implications of these findings for a possible coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine.

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“…Moral and ethics itself cannot be separated from the guidance of religion. Ethics is one of importance factors of the relationship between religion and science [18], while both are believed to affect the state of education in some countries [19]. Religion is the core of the historical knowledge of science that contrasts sharply with social life [20].…”

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The urgency of religious and cultural science in STEM education: A meta data analysis

Sumarni

Faizah

Subali

et al. 2020

IJERE

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The 21st century education engages students to have higher order thinking and scientific literacy skills. However, these abilities in Indonsia are still relatively low, especially student’s scientific literacy skills. One solution to the problem of low scientific literacy skills in Indonesia is the application of STEM education. However, as technology advances pursued in STEM education, religious and cultural sciences increasingly separate themselves from science. Cultural science is rarely implemented in learning so that many students do not know their own culture. The contra between science and religion also makes students’s perception of religion and science are two independent knowledge and cannot be united. Through literature studies that have been carried out from various journal article search sites, this article discusses how important religious and cultural sciences are to be implemented into STEM education. The relationship between religion and science, culture and science, culture and religion and the urgency of religion and culture in STEM education are also discussed in this article. The results of this study propose solutions so that science education can be implemented with RE-STEM learning to overcome the gap between religion, culture and science. So, that students will have a more balanced knowledge in religion, ethnoscience and science from RE-STEM integration.

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Are Biological Science Knowledge, Interests, and Science Identity Framed by Religious and Political Perspectives in the United States?

Cited by 11 publications

References 34 publications

Christian nationalism and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and uptake

Christian nationalism and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and uptake

How Culture Wars Delay Herd Immunity: Christian Nationalism and Anti-vaccine Attitudes

The urgency of religious and cultural science in STEM education: A meta data analysis

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