Christians in the Twenty-First Century

Global Citizenship Identification and Religiosity

“…Although previous research has consistently shown a positive relationship between gcid and prosocial values (Reysen & Katzarska-Miller, 2013a, 2013b, the relationship between religiosity and values is more complex. Religious doctrine (Chryssides & Wilkins, 2011;Howell, 2001) and some empirical research (Stavrova & Siegers, 2014) suggest religiosity being associated with prosocial values, however a significant body of research shows religiosity being correlated with prejudice (Hall et al, 2010;Whitley, 2009) and exclusionary values (Johnson et al, 2012;Saroglou et al, 2005). Despite the suggestion that there may exist an overlap between religiosity and gcid (Oxley & Morris, 2013), the results of the present studies show that identification with the social categories is relatively unrelated.…”

“…Prior research shows gcid is related to a variety of prosocial values Reysen & Katzarska-Miller, 2013a, 2013bReysen, Katzarska-Miller, Gibson, & Hobson, 2013). Similarly, religiosity is suggested (Chryssides & Wilkins, 2011;Howell, 2001), and sometimes related to prosocial values (Stavrova & Siegers, 2014). However, other research shows that religiosity is related to non-prosocial values such as sexual (e.g., Whitley, 2009) and racial (e.g., Hall et al, 2010) prejudice, and outgroup rejection (e.g., Johnson et al, 2012;Pichon & Saroglou, 2009).…”

“…A focus on religious doctrine suggests that religiosity should be related to prosocial values such as caring for the poor, forgiveness (Howell, 2001), peace, social justice, respect for humanity, moral responsibility to the well-being of non-human animals, altruism, and human rights (Chryssides & Wilkins, 2011). The overview of global citizenship provided above, indicates that gcid, similar to religious doctrine, is associated with various prosocial values.…”