The Church, Individual Religiosity, and Social Justice

Abstract

The role of the church in contemporary issues of social justice is exam. ined by analyzing attitudinal data from a sample of college students. WhiIe considerable support was accorded the diffuse national goal of a fully integrated society, the respondents were lar from certain that the clergy and the church should be actively involved in obtaining this goal. More church members than non-members agreed with the general orientation of a fully integrated society, although more Protestants and nonmembers than Catholics supported the active involvement of the clergy. Ah analysis of the data by the degree of individual religiosity, as measured by ah eight-item Guttman scale, showed that, in general a larger proportion of high as compared with low religiosity respondents supported an integrated society asa national goal, but a lower proportion of high religiosity respondents supported direct involvement by the church or the clergy.

Invariant effect of individual cultural orientations: an application of CVSCALE

“…Eighth, two types of innovativeness are measured: innovativeness (Yi et al, 2006) and openness to experience (Goldberg, 1999). Nineth, three types of general life styles are measured: life satisfaction (Clench-Aas et al, 2011), protestant religiosity (De Jong and Faulkner, 1967), and family as the most important element in life ( Jackson, 1981).…”

Religiosity scales in marketing research

“…Ten religiosity scales were only used in one journal article. While most religiosity scales appeared to be applicable across all religious affiliations, some scales were clearly targeted toward Christians (Barna Group, 2005; De Jong and Faulkner, 1967; Feldman and Johnston, 2014; Brown, 1962). See the supplementary information file, part B for a listing of religiosity scales categorized by religious audience (monotheistic scales, God-centric scales and general religiosity scales).…”

“…All religiosity scales were included in this study, with a few exceptions. For the 16 preexisting religiosity scales, the Zwingmann and Moosbrugger (2004) scale was excluded because the items of the scale were not provided in the corresponding marketing article or by its authors, and also the four religiosity scales targeted toward only one religious affiliation were excluded (Barna Group, 2005;De Jong and Faulkner, 1967;Feldman and Johnston, 2014;Brown, 1962), leaving 11 remaining preexisting scales included in this study (see supplementary information file, part A for authors and items). For the 20 author-generated scales, the only excluded scale was the one scale targeted toward one specific religious affiliation (Mazar, Amir and Ariely, 2008) and the one in which scale items were unknown (Brick et al, 2018).…”

“…Examples of more general religiosity measures include Examples of religiosity scales tailored to a specific religious affiliation include Dali et al (2019) religiosity scale that is tailored toward Muslims (e.g. "Muhammad is His final Prophet" and "I believe Al-Quranic teachings are suitable in today's life") as well as De Jong and Faulkner's (1967) religiosity scale that is tailored toward Christians (e.g. "It is impossible for an individual to develop a well-rounded religious life apart from the institutional Christian Church" and "I believe the report of the miracles in the Bible; that is, they occurred through a setting aside of natural laws by a higher power").…”