East Asian religious tolerance—A myth or a reality? Empirical investigations of religious prejudice in East Asian societies
(2014) Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology — Vol. 45, n° 10, p. 1515-1533 (2014)
Files
pdfdocument.pdf
Restricted Access - Adobe PDF
- 515.35 KB
Details
- Authors
- Abstract
- Is East Asian religious tolerance, as opposed to Western monotheistic prejudice, a stereotype or a reality? Based on theoretical and empirical evidence, we hypothesized low prejudice as a function of East Asian religiosity. We examined whether this holds true for interreligious, anti-atheist, ethnic, and anti-gay prejudice. In Study 1, analysis of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) 2008 data from Eastern religious and Christian samples in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan (total N = 3,555) showed, contrarily to Christians, high interreligious tolerance and weaker if no anti-gay prejudice as a function of Eastern religiosity. In Study 2, Eastern religiosity among Taiwanese (n = 222) was negatively related to prejudice against various religious outgroups (except atheists), especially among those low in authoritarianism. In Study 3, Eastern religiosity among Taiwanese (n = 102) was negatively related to implicit interreligious (Muslims) and ethnic (Africans) prejudice; prosociality partially mediated the former association. Eastern religious tolerance seems to be true, but not unlimited.
- Affiliations
Citations
Clobert, M., Saroglou, V., Hwang, K.-K., & Soong, W.-L. (2014). East Asian religious tolerance—A myth or a reality? Empirical investigations of religious prejudice in East Asian societies. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 45(10), 1515-1533. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022114546641 (Original work published 2014)