Associations Among Religiousness, Social Attitudes, and Prejudice in a National Random Sample of American Adults

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 14-24

  Rowatt, Wade C ^a   LaBouff, Jordan ^a   Johnson, Megan ^a   Froese, Paul ^a   Tsang, Jo Ann ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attitudes toward homosexuals; individual differences; racial prejudice; religiousness

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650145355     PISSN: 19411022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014989     Document Type: Article

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