Buddha vs. Allah: Eastern religiosity as related to low anti-Muslim prejudice.
(2013) International Association for the Psychology of Religion Conference — Location: Lausanne, Switzerland (27.August.2013)
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- Research on religiosity and prejudice in the last decades has almost been limited to Christians Westerners. Religiosity has thus been found to predict prejudice against religious outgroups, such as Muslims. Do these findings also hold for Eastern religions and cultures? Does Eastern religiosity also promote negative attitudes toward Muslims? We will here review three recent studies carried out within different populations and using various measures of anti-Muslims prejudice. In Study 1, religiosity of Taiwanese from a Buddhist/Taoist tradition was found to predict low prejudice against Muslims. Study 2, carried out among similar population, showed that religiosity was negatively related to implicit prejudice against Muslims (IAT). Finally, in Study 4, priming supraliminally Westerners converted to Buddhism with Buddhist words lead to decreased Islamophobia. These findings challenge earlier research and suggest that the association between religiosity and religious prejudice may not be universal.
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Clobert, M., & Saroglou, V. (2013). Buddha vs. Allah: Eastern religiosity as related to low anti-Muslim prejudice. International Association for the Psychology of Religion Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/61821