Moralizing to the Choir: The Moral Foundations of American Clergy*

Djupe, Paul A.; Friesen, Amanda

doi:10.1111/ssqu.12455

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“…Haidt (2012) suggests some of these Foundations are present at birth, as even infants seem to display an innate sense of Fairness, while the other Foundations can be learned through cultural or religious instruction. Indeed, Djupe and Friesen (2018) find that American clergy members espouse Moral Foundations that reflect the left-right theological positions of their religious traditions, but there is variation to when they subscribe to the "binding" foundations of Purity, Loyalty and Authority and when they appeal to the "individualizing" foundations of Harm and Fairness.…”

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Generational Change? The Effects of Family, Age, and Time on Moral Foundations

Friesen

2019

The Forum

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One way to uncover the persistent role of religion across generations is to look past traditional understandings of religious belief and denominational belonging and examine the presence of bedrock principles that could influence political beliefs in families. The Moral Foundations framework was developed for this purpose – to describe human behavior and attitudes in the moral realm without relying upon country, culture, or time specific labels. In an original and rare three-generation dataset, college students, their parents, and their grandparents were asked about political attitudes and preferences for the Moral Foundations of Harm/Care, Fairness/Reciprocity, Ingroup/Loyalty, Authority/Respect, and Purity/Sanctity. The Foundations are not equally shared across generations as preferences for each Foundation increase with the age of the cohorts in this sample, with especially large differences on Authority and Purity. A follow-up survey reveals that Moral Foundations may not be stable across even short periods of time. These findings suggest that the political appeals that may work on older Americans may be less effective on the younger generations. If individuals indeed make moral decisions based on these types of bedrock principles, understanding which of these principles or Foundations drive particular age groups can help us better understand shifts in public opinion.

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Generational Change? The Effects of Family, Age, and Time on Moral Foundations

Friesen

2019

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“…Gendered socialization patterns that train women to be more sensitive to the social costs attached to nonreligious beliefs may also encourage the risk-religion relationship (Edgell, Frost, and Stewart 2017). Djupe and Friesen (2017) find that women high in the Big Five trait of conscientiousness (which has also been linked to risk aversion, see Martin, Friedman, and Schwartz 2007), channel their sense of obligation into religious activities, and unlike for men, these activities do not result in the development of civic skills for women.…”

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Racial Limitations on the Gender, Risk, Religion, and Politics Model

Friesen

Holman

2021

Politics and Religion

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Risk aversion dampens political participation and heightens religiosity, with concentrated effects among women. Yet, little is known about how intersecting identities moderate these psychological correlates of religiosity and political engagement. In this paper, we theorize that the risk-religion-politics relationship is gendered and racialized. Using a nationally representative survey, we show that political participation is more strongly correlated with risk for Black women than for any other race-gender group. For religiosity, however, we find little evidence that risk is related to religiosity among Black women, while highly correlated with white women's religious engagement. For men—whether Black or white—risk exhibits a modest, positive relationship with their religiosity. Our results speak to the importance of considering intersectionality and race-gender identities in evaluations of religious and political activities in the United States.

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“…However, research on MFT with religious samples has highlighted the importance of individual differences for driving subtle variations in moral foundations across the theological spectrum, suggesting the need for further attention to religious traditions and contexts (e.g. Djupe & Friesen, 2018;Johnson et al, 2016).…”

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The Multidimensional Religious Ideology scale

Wildman

Wood²,

Caldwell‐Harris

et al. 2021

Archive for the Psychology of Religion

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The Multidimensional Religious Ideology (MRI) scale is a new 43-item measure that quantifies conservative versus liberal aspects of religious ideology. The MRI focuses on recurring features of ideology rooted in innate moral instincts while capturing salient differences in the ideological profiles of distinct groups and individuals. The MRI highlights how religious ideology differs from political ideology while maintaining a robust grounding in the social psychology of ideology generally. Featuring three major dimensions (religious beliefs, religious practices, and religious morality) and eight subdimensions, the MRI is sensitive enough to generate novel insights into religious ideology across demographic groups and individual differences. The MRI is also summative, yielding a single quantitative measurement of left–right religious ideology with good scale and test–retest reliability. Analysis of 839 respondents across two studies confirmed the widespread assumption that religious ideology is a parallel construct to political ideology, emerging from similar foundations but following a distinct set of rules. The MRI shows the importance of conceptualizing ideology in ways that access the full spectrum of real-world ideological convictions—an important reminder, given the salience of religious factors for influencing ideology generally.

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Moralizing to the Choir: The Moral Foundations of American Clergy*

Cited by 10 publications

References 39 publications

Generational Change? The Effects of Family, Age, and Time on Moral Foundations

Generational Change? The Effects of Family, Age, and Time on Moral Foundations

Racial Limitations on the Gender, Risk, Religion, and Politics Model

The Multidimensional Religious Ideology scale

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